| Abstract [eng] |
Sources of the Lithuanian Criminal Law SUMMARY The certain whole complex of interdependent of the criminal law consisting not only of a lot of statutory acts but also of other different documents, papers and treatises exists in each country and in Lithuania, too. Some of them are applied directly when a problem related to the criminal law is solved, others on the contrary – only explain and concretize the contents and meaning of rules of law applied directly. Therefore it is important specifically to know and define the sources of the Lithuanian criminal law, the system to which they exist and on which by the way there is no one opinion. The sources of law are classified according to different criteria in the theory of law. However, in the sense of the topic analyzed the sources of the Lithuanian criminal law are divided into two major groups, i.e. primary and secondary sources of criminal law as both theoretical and practical importance of them may be revealed and demonstrated in a more explicit way because each entity officially applying or citing a certain rule of the criminal law more easily choose a proper variant of behavior. Thus, the project deals with the conception, types, system of the sources of the criminal law and also their historical development in Lithuania. The project structure itself consist of three parts that are logically interrelated, complement one another and allow better revealing of the practical importance of the theme analyzed because at the beginning, having agreed on what would be considered as the sources of the criminal law and having discussed the historic stages of their formation, it is easier to perceive the present system of the criminal law sources and the essence, contents and nature of them by trying at the same time in such a way to find answers to problematic questions arising in the theory of law. |
