Classification of legal relations, exempting from legal liability

Background. Legal relations that exempt from legal liability represent a certain system. One of the tools for building any system is the classification of its constituent elements. The issue of classi fying the types of legal relations exempting from legal liability is poorly developed in the scientific lit erature. This circumstance determines the relevance of the topic of the article. The purpose of this work is an attempt to classify the types of legal relations that exempt from legal liability. Materials and methods. The proposed classification of legal relations exempting from legal liability is based on some criteria used to classify types of legal liability (by industry, by scope, etc.), since exemption from legal liability is its sub-institution. General classification recommendations were also used (definition of basic units, broad generalizations, and the possibility of practical application). These rules do not al low for the classification of legal relations exempting from legal liability by the "nature of the impact" (repressive and compensatory) and by the "grounds of occurrence" (objective and subjective). As hav ing no practical significance, they should not be divided into "simple" and "complex", as well as on the basis of "involving legal entities and individuals." General scientific methods were used in the work: systematic, logical, as well as particular methods: comparative legal and formal legal. Results. An attempt to comply with these requirements leads to the conclusion that the classification of types of legal relations exempting from legal liability should be carried out by industry, as well as "by scope" (public law and civil law), by "procedure of application" (judicial and judicial-administrative), by "moment of occurrence" (general and specific). For some reasons, only one type of legal liability can be distinguished. Conclusions. The classification of types of legal relations exempting from legal lia bility will look like this: by industry: criminal, administrative, tax; by scope: public law; by order of application: judicial and administrative; by time of occurrence: general and specific.