THE CONCEPT OF LEGAL FACT

Abstract

the article makes a critical analysis of the dominant in science concept and signs of legal fact. The author concludes that some of the signs traditionally invested by lawyers in the notion of a legal fact do not adequately describe the essence of this phenomenon. The author proves that the legal fact is a strictly legal phenomenon, which the law can consider existing, contrary to reality. It is substantiated that the legal facts entail a variety of legal consequences, and not just the dynamics of civil legal relations. The author delimits legal facts from related phenomena – the conditions for the emergence of legal relationships, prerequisites, etc. In the article the author formulates the concept and signs of a legal fact.