The functions of historical and logical methods in the legal cognition

The article deals with the functions of historical and logical methods in the legal cognition. The author characterizes different forms of legal research. Special attention is paid to consideration of historical and legal research studies, i.e. history of domestic state and law, history of state and law of foreign countries, history of political and legal doctrines. Analyzing the specific character and the importance of historical methods in legal research, the author comes to a conclusion that concrete-historical, chronological, historical-comparative, historical-genetic, historical-typological, retrospective, historical-portrait and others refer to the main methods of historical and legal studies. It is stated that in the legal research the logical methods fulfill a cognitive function as a part of general scientific methods of legal cognition and as a part of scientific methods of legal science. The logical methods of definition, classification, abstraction, deduction, induction, analysis, synthesis and others can be used in the legal cognition.