Ways of Presenting Legal Provisions in Articles of Regulatory Acts: Issues of Theory

Purpose. Сlarification of the classification of ways of presenting the norms of law in articles of normative acts traditionally used in the domestic theory of state and law. Some points in the description of the ways of presenting legal norms, which have become textbook and are reflected in any textbook of the theory of state and law, do not fully correspond to real law-making practice and in this regard are far from being as indisputable as they seem at first glance. Methods: general scientific methods (description, analysis, synthesis, induction), private scientific methods of cognition of legal phenomena (legal-dogmatic method, method of analysis of normative legal texts). Results. The idea of the existence of only three ways of presenting legal norms in articles of normative legal acts is limited. From the point of view of techniques and means of textual presentation of the content of legal norms, there are direct, reference, blank, implicit and combined methods. The reality of the existence of these methods is confirmed by an analysis of current Russian legislation. Discussion. The article substantiates the idea that concretizes and develops the idea that has developed in legal science about the relationship between a legal norm and an article of a normative legal act. The conclusions drawn by the author are significant for improving the means and techniques of law-making techniques.