SCIENCE OF LAW ON LEGAL CUSTOM: APPROACHES AND CLASSIFICATIONS
In the article the peculiarities of the cognition of the essence, legal nature of “custom” are considered. The comparative-legal analysis of the leading researchers’ opinions on the problem of “custom” comprehension is given. Special attention is paid to the analysis of legal custom features and to the criteria of legal customs classification. The authors make an attempt to consider “legal custom” as a definiendum that is a term that is given a strictly fixed meaning. The article also reveals the peculiarities of the identification of the essence of the definiendum of “legal custom” as a legal category. Main attention is drawn to the historiographical analysis of the definiendum “legal custom”. Different definitions, features and characteristics of the definiendum “legal custom” are revealed.