the article examines the various justice regimes underlying the practices of providing land for burials in a public municipal cemetery. it describes and interprets ideas about justice, as well as the influence of cultural and social context on the formation of such practices. The empirical basis of the article was a court case considered in the Ulyanovsk Regional Court. The reason for the beginning of the trial was a conflict between two residents of the working village for a place in a public municipal cemetery and for the right to install a fence, a table and a bench on it. The participants of the dispute, convinced of the legitimacy of mutual claims, appealed to the court, which found itself in a situation of forced proceedings in shadow practices that are not regulated by law. From the point of view of the normative approach, the main reasons for such practices are considered to be the inconsistency of federal, regional and local normative legal acts regulating funeral services. However, the impact of the cultural and social context remains unclear. In conclusion, it should be two statements. First, the modern Russian market of funeral services is the heir to the Soviet funeral business, where the main principle was the delegation of authority to local authorities to carry out burials. This led to the fact that Soviet citizens themselves buried their relatives-they made coffins, monuments, and looked for a place to bury them. On the example of a court case, it is shown how the described methods of interaction continue to exist inertly in modern Russia. secondly, the practice of allocating space in a cemetery is a complex form of bargaining and contract based on local tradition. as a result, this form becomes a resource of justification and forms a special regime of justice. Within the framework of the studied case, it is shown how different justice regimes collide.