Usmanova, R.M. Custom within the system of public regulation of social relations.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the issues of application of custom in order to regulate social relations. The author analyzes the nature of custom as a source of law, and as an independent social regulator in the legal science. The author thinks that legally there’s no legal custom, since it’s a legal norm, while custom is a type of social norm. In the author’s point of view, as soon as customs are supported by the state, they lose the quality of non-legal social norms, and they become norms of law with all the due consequence of formation of law.

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