Sources (forms) of law: comparative and histor ical analysis
The article examines a wide range of sources of law of different law families on the different stages of development of law and state. Several types of classification of law sources are found - by value and role of the source in law system, by its external appearance, by order of enactment and registration of the change in its content. By the role in law system several gradations of sources are discovered: main and additional, dominant and auxiliary. By appearance sources can be divided to written and unwritten, formal and informal, structured and unstructured. By order of enactment and registration of the changes sources can be divided to consensus, unilateral and sanctioned, sole, collegial and mixed, as well as flexible and rigid.