In official Russian mzdoimstvom , according to article 372 ' Ulozhenija about punishments ', was called acceptance by the person consisting on the state or public service, a gift for the action concerning duties of its service, and and such, as which in what these duties are not broken. under the law punishability for mzdoimstvo was put in dependence on, whether the gift has been accepted after that execution, for what it intended, or before. In the first case guilty in mzdoimstve was exposed to only monetary collecting not over the double price of a gift, in the second - over the same monetary collecting still to dismissal from a post.

Analysts of that time noticed that at mzdoimstve the principle ' neprodazhnosti office actions ' which should be carried out owing to public duties lying on the official is broken. reception by the official of compensation from interested persons gives to its activity private character that contradicts the basic beginnings defining the nature of public service, and transforms execution of an office debt into the favour. the attention to practice existing in a number of the countries when withdrawals from bezusloenogo applications of this principle became at the same time was paid:

) reception ' on tea ' the postman or the policeman, that is the small employee;

) entertainment acceptance;

) reception of a gift with the permission of the heads;

) gift reception for extreme, though also made but to a debt of service of service.