definiteness of legal status

Introduction. One of the major constitutional requirements to the legal law is the requirement of its legal definiteness. However this re- quirement isn’t limited to definiteness of a legal form, but assumes the accounting of material or actual aspect of definiteness of the right. Theoretical analysis. In article legal definiteness through a dichotomy of its formal and material aspects is considered. The author comes to a conclusion that characteristic approach for domestic law to the right as to a form isn’t gnoseological indisputable. Results. Proceeding from the carried-out analysis the author allocates various aspects of formal and actual definiteness in the right, and also proves need of expansion of tool base of science of the theory of the right and a constitutional law. In particular, as one of perspective gnoseological paradigms sociocultural approach to the right is.