The main results of the study of the legal form as a category of the science of administrative law are highlighted in the article, clarified its axiological and ontological significance. The relation between the concept of “legal form” and the concepts such as “legal form of activity”, “legal form of realization of state functions”, “the form of law” are determined. It is stressed that the presence of a legal procedure is a mandatory feature of the legal form.
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