EVOLUTION OF THE CONCEPT OF RESPONSIBILITY IN DOMESTIC LAW
This article examines the role of legal liability in domestic law. The current problems of the modern theory of legal responsibility are identified, namely: the lack of a single concept of legal responsibility, the exact separation from the institution of punishment and the insufficient specification of the general provisions of the institution of responsibility in normative legal acts. The article presents an analysis of the emergence and formation of the concept of «responsibility» in pre-revolutionary law and reference scientific literature. The phenomenon of responsibility in various historical periods together with the concept of «punishment» is investigated. The author’s approach to improving the institution of legal responsibility in modern jurisprudence is presented. It is concluded that since the beginning of its formation at the turn of the XIV- XV centuries, the concept of «responsibility» was used in law enforcement relations primarily in a negative aspect and was used to denote the state reaction to offenses without specifying the adverse consequences, which, in turn, were implemented through the use of various types of punishment.