SOCIAL AND LEGAL STATUS OF KAZAKH GIRLS AND WOMEN ACCORDING TO THE CODE OF LAWS OF 1885 "KARAMOLA YEREZHESI"

Abstract

The author conducts a study of one of the little-known pages in the history of the
Kazakh statehood - the legal status of girls and women according to the code of laws «Karamola
Yerezhesi», adopted in 1885. The law was issued almost a century and a half after the laws of Tauke
Khan «Zhety Jargy» at the beginning of the XVIII century. Scientists of Kazakhstan have previously
carried out work on translating the historical source into Russian, prepared a textbook and a short
commentary on the structure of the codes of laws. The study will use methods of causal relationships of
the prerequisites for the emergence of this set of laws, a historiographical and source-based review, the
role of biys and clergy on the socio-economic and socio-political development of law in relation to
women, the impact on the socio-property rights of the Kazakh girl and woman, the role of family ties and
communities, the penetration of Russian officialdom the apparatus in the texts has their role and meaning.
The method of analysis and synthesis, generalization of the data obtained in the relationship of «Adet»
and Muslim law «Sharia» in relation to the socio-legal status of women, subjective reasons for the
involvement of Abai (Ibrahim) Kunanbayuli in the compilation of articles as an «honorary Kazakh» of
Semipalatinsk county are used.