Abstract: the article reveals the features of the legal status of women in the inheritance law of the peoples of Dagestan in the XVII-XIX centuries. For a long period of time, legal relations in Dagestan were regulated with the help of Adat and Sharia. According to Adat norms, women’s rights to inheritance property were significantly limited. All real estate was transferred along the male line in the family. Fathers who did not have sons tried with the help of “nazra” to change the existing order of inheritance transfer. A woman was considered as the property of her husband or his family, – confirmation of this is levious marriages in which the widow was to marry one of the brothers of the deceased husband. In the inheritance rights of immovable property, only Sharia nomes included a woman in the group of heirs. However, her share was less than the share of men.
Keywords: woman, social and legal situation, the levirate, amergerst, marriage, inheritance, customary law, Adat, Sharia