Definitive, specific and specification criteria of legal liability

Introduction: the article deals with the concept, types and specificity of legal liability as a legal category. The author focuses on the definitional component of this legal institution together with those scientific approaches that comprehend its formulation and understanding from the point of view of the dogma of law and civilistic direction of legal science. The work analyses various definitions of legal liability from critical positions, in parallel with the comprehension of the essence and functions of civil liability. Within the framework of scientific analysis of legal liability, the author focuses on those features that are inherent in this institution from the point of view of domestic law enforcement practice and the branch of civil law. The author in his article reveals the key features of legal liability, its legal specification, as well as those components that are part of its structure systematise the institution, turning it into a set of legal means through which the state implements the mechanism of coercion. In addition, the work attempts to comprehend the legal nature of legal liability in terms of the norms of various areas of legal regulation and, above all, the branch of civil law.