Semenihin I. The Legal Doctrine in jurisprudence and legal practice.

The thesis guides to an extensive research on the nature and effect of legal doctrine, determining its features, structure and content, its role in the system of law sources, identifying requirements under which the doctrine acquires the meaning of form of law with featuring the general characteristic of reasons essential thereto and elaborating common theoretical concept of legal doctrine. The evolution of scientific views on the legal doctrine to be a component of legal system is on the spot of the Thesis with focusing on the foreign and native scientific works to have studied particular aspects of law doctrine essence, forms of its objectivization, the ways of its application in law making, enforcement and interpretative legal activity. While identifying the place and effect of legal doctrine in forming various legal systems, the consistent patterns of its origin have been detected as well as legal doctrine development periodization has been developed.