Indictment process in Eastern Georgia of the XVII-XVIII centuries

Abstract

In the work, one of the particularly noteworthy details of the court justice of Eastern Georgia of the late feudal era, the accusatory process and its course, is studied. In late-feudal Georgia, the judicial institution was called „secretary“, it is an Arabic word and it meant a judicial and state institution. The official appointed to perform a special judicial function was called Mdivanbegi. Mdivanbeg was a judge whose competence included various types of civil and criminal cases. Mdivanbeg's court was usually collegial. The court was attended by a secretary, whose duty was to record the testimony of the parties, to find the appropriate article of the legal book;  Secretaries were also considered members of the court and took part in deciding cases. These people would carry out the course of the accusation process that we are studying. The course of the Indictment process was entirely the prerogative of the secretary, but unlike the royal trinity of Western Georgia, since the 17th century, the course of the impeachment process has been the responsibility of the secretary along with the secretary and his subordinates.