Historical and legal aspect of legal terminology with respect to the subject field of the police functional

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of legal terminology, typical for the pre-revolutionary period of development of Russian law. Clarifying the independent meaning of certain concepts that existed in the Russian law enforcement environment and revealing their «sound» for the subject field of police activity in some territories of the Russian Empire, the author focuses on the process of objective integration into the domestic conceptual apparatus of law of a number of terms that reflect the specifics of the work of the police department, in the context national tradition and language of the peoples inhabiting our country before 1917.