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LECTURE 4
LEGAL RELATIONS AND OFFENCES

Lecture plan

4.1. Legal relations: concept, composition and content of legal
relations.

4.2. Composition and types of offenses.
Keywords of the theme: legal relations, offences, subjects of
legal relations, object of legal relations, powers, duties, legal fact,
objective side of offense, subjective aspect of offense.

4.1. Legal relations: concept, composition and content of
legal relations.

Law cannot exist without legal relationships, it is implemented
in legal relationships, lives and operates within it.
Legal relations are a concrete form of the existence of law.

Legal relationships are directly related to the state and civil society,
with the system of law and legislation.
Social relations are regulated by different rules: religious, moral,

corporate. Much of social relations are built on the basis of law – they
are called legal relationships.
Legal relationships are a variety of social relations
(relationships between people in which they enter in order to meet

their needs), regulated by legal norms, whose participants have equal
rights and responsibilities. The norm of law is implemented in the
legal relationships, its legal order is embodied. However, unlike other

social relations, the legal relationships have specific features:
- the legal relationships arise as a result of legal facts, provided
by the rules of law;
- content of legal relationships is enshrined in the general form

in the rule of law. Its disposition contains an indication to the rights
and responsibilities that may be held by the subjects of law. These
rights and responsibilities, but in a concrete, substantive form,

constitute the content of legal relationships;

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