The development analysis of the ideas about classifications of interpretative acts

Introduction: the official interpretation of the norms of law is an integral part of the mechanism of the legal regulation. Despite this, its system is not fully understood today. This is especially true with regard to interpretative acts, whose totality is currently insufficiently studied, despite the historical experience formed. Purpose: the generalization and analysis of specific ideas about the classifications of interpretative acts, as well as the use of the data obtained for the possibility of identifying the classification groups of interpretation acts of the norms of law. Methods: the methodological framework for the research is a set of methods of scientific cognition, among which are consistency, analysis, and comparative legal, formal legal, historical methods. Results: the author’s position justified in the work on the possibility of distinguishing the classification groups is based on the results of the study of ideas about the classifications of acts of interpretation of legal norms in the period of pre-revolutionary, Soviet and modern Russia. Conclusions: as a result of the conducted research, it was found that the presence of various types of interpretative acts in itself does not always form a system, since the latter should represent a group of interrelated elements. That is why, it is worth distinguishing not just types, but groups of types of acts of interpreting the norms of law whose necessary part are functional (forms a set of types of acts of interpretation of the norms of law, whose use allows you to clearly see how the official interpretation of the norms of law directly ensures the processes of the legal regulation of public relations) and auxiliary (forms a set of types of acts of interpretation of the norms of law whose use is intended to support the functional group, this is a kind of technical organization).