Some issues of liability and punishment in Kyrgyz customary law

Using historical-legal, system-structural, comparative-legal research methods, the article analyzes the legal regulation of social relations based on customary law. The emphasis is especially placed on the legal regulation of criminal liability and punishment. Attempts have been made to study the substantive aspects of customary law, its characteristic features in the regulation of social relations of the corresponding historical stage of the social development of the Kyrgyz. And also, the article considers factors influencing the norms of customary law in the process of its formation. The purpose of the study is to identify the characteristics of criminal liability and punishment in the common law of the Kyrgyz people. As well as a study of the evolution of its development, the positive and negative sides of legal regulation. The results of the study can be used in scientific research on the theory and history of state and law, in the educational process.