The general and the particular in legal responsibility in public and private law

The article examines general and special features of legal responsibility in public and private law, for the first time the author has systematized the following comparison criteria: signs, goals, functions, principles, subjective basis, protected interests, legal space for the emergence of legal responsibility, the nature and method of legal regulation, the public danger of commit- ting offenses and the severity of the consequences envisaged for their commission. As a result of the conducted research, the author comes to the conclusion that the common in legal responsibility in public and private law are: signs, goals, functions, principles (except the principles of responsibility only for the guilty acts and the presumption of innocence) and protected interests. To the specifics of responsibility in public and private law should be attributed subjective basis, the legal space for the emergence of legal responsibility, the nature and method of legal regulation, the public danger of committing offenses and the severity of the consequences provided for their commission.