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JURISPRUDENCE: PRESENTATION OF A TEXTBOOK FEATURES OF LAW DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14420/en.2014.1.9
Svetlana Boshno, Doctor of Juridical Science, Professor and Head of the Political Science and Law Department of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, e-mail: boshno@yandex.ru.
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The article discusses the signs of law allowing to understand the law as a particular kind of social regulation. An important feature of the law is certainty, which creates conditions for a uniform understanding and application of law. The article describes the linguistic techniques that create preconditions for the formal certainty of the law: accuracy, clarity, simplicity, uniformity of terminology. The sociality of the law emphasizes that the law governs only relations between people who have the will and consciousness. The process of creating a law has peculiarities. Compliance with the procedural rules of law making is essential for the validity of law. Of great importance is the normativity of law. The feature combines non-personification of the addressee, universality and general obligation. Such signs of the law as stability and dynamism are considered in the unity. The article will be included into the textbook ÂŤJurisprudenceÂť. signs of law, features of law, normativity, universality, nonpersonification, general obligation, the social value of law, the formal certainty, legalese, stability of the law, the dynamism of the law, written law, the form of law, regulation, corruption.
Law is an important version of regulators of public relations. Law exists in different forms: regulations, precedent, custom, doctrinal and other forms of law. Each form of law has specific characteristics, but there are common ones. We consider those signs that characterize the essence of law, its social value and purpose. Of great importance are those signs of law that allow to select it as a special regulatory system that is different from morality and religion. 1. Certainty of law is connected with special requirements to the outer shell, the form of expression. Legal rules, as a rule, are fixed in writing in the