LIMIT AS A LEGAL MEANS: THEORETICAL AND INSTRUMENTAL ASPECT
The article analyses such a phenomenon as a limit from the point of view of the instrumental approach. Using established doctrinal positions, normative legal material, the author hypothesizes that the limit plays a crucial role in the process of legal regulation of public relations. The limit is a legal instrument aimed at resolving its objectives. Using a variety of means and methods of knowledge, the author justifies the characteristic qualities of the limit as a legal means, one of which is its implementation into the norm of law, its embodiment of the main, primary tool-instrument, which performs a stimulating and restrictive function, occupies a unique place in the legal regulatory mechanism. As a conclusion, it is argued that the limits relate, referring to the basic legal means, in the dominant of their own act together with other legal phenomena.