Gorbal' V. Person's rights in a law thought of Naddniprjanska Ukraine in the end of XVIII - beginning of XX century (individualistic conceptions).

The necessity of constitutional and law democratic state's formation is one of the most important tasks of the modern Ukrainian society, the main aim of which is to provide rights and freedoms of the person and the citizen. Ukraine has constitutionally admitted these rights and freedoms according to international and law standards in this field. Ukrainian and Russian law science in the period before revolution, studying person's rights, has gained a great scientific skills, has shown different approaches which go-together with a modern classification of law theories and political doctrines. This potential still remains not enough studied and lighted. The reason to it, first of all, was a critical and negative mark of the period before revolution, made by law scientists in the soviet period. Nevertheless, it is known for a long time that the fallowness of ideas and views is so indisputable as heritage in nature. That's why scientists stress out some mistakes of law searches in the light of new condition s "from the blank paper" they also insist on the obligatory studies of the period before revolution's experience. The notions, essence and the structure of the person's rights, scientific suppositions of this conception creation, its consolidation in Ukrainian and Russian political and law thought in the period of XVIII - beginning of XX century in theories of natural law, historical law school, positivistic trends are studied in this thesis. Key words: person's rights, natural law, historical law school, law positivism, sociological positivism, the school of revived natural law, individualistic theories.