Classification of legal norms: features

Legal norms - rules that establish the rights, duties and responsibilities of participants in civil relations. Classification of legal norms occurs on different grounds. Let's look at them in more detail.

On subjects of law-making

The concept and types of forms of law, first, can come from the state - the norms of representative, executive and judicial authorities. Secondly, from civil society - the norms adopted by residents of some territorial entity or citizens of the whole state.

By social purpose and role in the legal system

In this aspect, the classification of legal norms is as follows:

• Constituent (principles) - regulating relations in a society, legal position of an individual, borders of influence of the state;
• Regulative (rules of conduct) - regulating practical relations between subjects through rights and obligations (empowering, binding, prohibiting);
• Protective (guardians of order) - fixing measures Coercion for violation of legal issues;
• Guarantees (guarantees) - guaranteeing the observance of rights and obligations;
• Declarative (declarations) - defining the issues of legal regulation ;
• Definitive (definitions) - formulating notations of legal phenomena and categories;
• Conflicts (arbitrators) - eliminating differences between legal requirements;
• Operational (tools) - establishing the validity of legal acts.

Classification of legal norms on the subject of legal regulation

According to this principle, norms vary in the branches of law-constitutional, civil, criminal, labor. There is also a classification of administrative and legal norms. They are also divided into material (establishing rules of conduct) and procedural (establishing the order of their implementation).

Classification of legal norms by the method of legal regulation

This principle distinguishes between mandatory norms (norms of administrative law, which are strict, imperious, categorical); Dispositive (having an autonomous character and implemented, as a rule, in civil law relations); Recommendatory (variants of expedient behavior of non-governmental organizations). In addition, in this area, norms can be classified as incentive, positive and punitive.

In terms of scope

We can single out the norms:

• General action - affecting each member of society and acting in the regions of the whole state;
• Limited action - having restrictions of a temporary, territorial, subjective nature, produced and published by the authorities of the regions of the Russian Federation;
• Local regulations - functioning within the framework of certain state, public or private structures.

Other variants of classifications

In addition to the above classification directions, legal norms are also subdivided in time - into temporary and permanent ones; On a circle of persons - extending to everyone falling under the action of the considered norms or to specifically defined associations of subjects (teachers, servicemen, etc.).