Approaches to understanding a legal conflict in historical retrospect and in modern scientificresearches are analyzed. The legal conflict is considered as a phenomenon that is objectively inherent inevery society. The features of the social and legal conflict are identified. The differences between thecategories “contradiction” and “conflict” are explained. The signs of the social conflict and the legalconflict have been identified. The stages of the legal conflict are characterized: the pre-conflict stage; thestage of legal relations; the stage of the conflict development; the conflict resolution stage, the postconflictstage.
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