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Different types of responsibilities have their own peculiarity or
specifics, different goals, therefore, the details of this issue relate to
different branches of law.
Legal liability is carried out on the principles of legality,
reasonableness, inevitability, individualization and justice. The Art. 66
of the Constitution stipulates that everyone is obliged not to harm the
nature, cultural heritage, to compensate losses caused by it.
Legal liability is divided into the following main types:
constitutional; criminal; administrative; disciplinary; civil law;
material, etc. A relatively new type of legal liability is constitutional,
examples of which are impeachment to the president, resignation of
the government.
There are various types of international legal responsibility in the
system of international law. There are economic sanctions against the
state – a violator of the norms of international law.
Basic principles of legal liability
The concept of law, offense and liability are inextricably linked
with the fact that one of the main objectives of law is the protection of
society from harmful and dangerous acts. That’s why the law is also
ensured (protected) by state coercion, because the existence of it is
conditioned by the presence of conflicting interests, conflicts,
collisions in the society, for the prevention and cessation of which the
use of coercive measures is necessary. Therefore, any legal system
contains the definition of offenses, sanctions for their implementation
and the order of their application and implementation.
The use of coercive measures for one or another act has always
attracted the attention of society, social groups, classes, because it is
most affecting the interests of people and their associations. The acute
attention to this problem is also caused by the possibility of mistakes,
arbitrariness or connivance of state bodies or officials, using coercive
measures. In everyday sense of justice, law is often associated
primarily with coercion and punishment; therefore, in mass surveys of
the population about the main operating legislation the Criminal Code
is called more often than others, although the life of the overwhelming
majority of the polled citizens is not connected with any crimes or
punishments.
The basic principles of legislative definition of liability for
violation of legal prohibitions were being formed in the process of
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