Formed by the order of the Council of People's Commissars of the Turkestan Territory on November 23, 1917 and was liquidated on November 24, 1924 in connection with the national delimitation of Central Asia.
Decrees and resolutions of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the TurkASSR on the activity of the People's Commissariat of Justice; regulations on the People's Commissariat of Justice and its departments, the Supreme Revolutionary Tribunal of the TurkASSR and regional tribunals, on regional departments of justice, Muslim people's courts and the central courses of judicial employers. Protocoles of the meetings of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Justice of the Turkestan ASSR and its departments.
Circulars and instructions of the People's Commissariat of Justice of the Turkestan ASSR on issues of judicial system and judicial supervision, on the procedure for amnesty, confiscation of property, purchase and sale transactions, on the abolition of kalym (in Central Asia, the amount of money given by the groom to the bride before the wedding), on the reform of the judicial system (1922 ); protocols of the congress of judicial workers of the Turkestan ASSR (September 29 - October 2, 1920), congresses of justice workers of the Uzbek, Turkmen and Kirghiz peoples (1922); reports, statements and correspondence on the organization and activities of the People's Commissariat of Justice and its departments and local judicial bodies, on the temporary introduction of Qоzi (executor, judge) - in Muslim countries, appointed by the ruler and performing judicial duties on the basis of Shariat, judge, chairman of the Shariat court.) and Biy courts (Biy court is a state institution in traditional Kazakh society, one of the ways to regulate legal relations) based on Shariat and adat (a set of procedures (customs) that have long been observed in society, have become educational for its members and are permitted by the state, but not legally enshrined) (1921-1922), on the work of the prosecutor's office (1923), on the activities of the Special Commission of the People's Commissar of Justice for Judicial Reform (1922).
Decree and resolution projects of the Central Executive Committee, Council of People's Commissars and people's commissariats of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and the conclusion of the department of legislative proposals on these projects; information and correspondence on the progress of cases in the courts, revolutionary tribunals and commissions of inquiry.
