Abstract: the presented article is devoted to the study of the unique oldest traditional institution of adats in the legal and social cultures of the nationalities of the Republic of Dagestan, in particular, representatives of the Samur district.
The urgency of considering this problem is confirmed by the multiplicity of modern research and the intensification of scientific interest in this legal phenomenon, due to the sociocultural code of the Caucasus region, whose representatives still honor the mountain adats.
The author consistently examines the existing adats, analyzes the norms of the customary law of the peoples of Dagestan through the prism of normatively fixed points of adats and outlines common characteristics that are a socio-cultural reflection of the life of a designated region.
Keywords: right, legal proceedings, law, adat, tukhum, witnesses, Dagestan, Samur district