Legislating process of the State in the Roman-Germanic legal family

The article is devoted to the concept and types of legislating in the modern theory of law is studied here. The problem of determining the legislating process as an activity directed on creation of the legal act called the most significant element of the structure of existing law is also risen here. Such approach is explained by the feature of the Romano-Germanic law, which by its nature and character is a statutory law, led by the main law. Relying on comparative researches, the article discusses in detail the form of legislating directly related to the activities of the State law-making, by-laws making and judicial legislating. Legislation for the Romano-Germanic law, due to the postulates based in the Roman law, is one of the most significant kinds of legislating. A very important role, along with legislating plays by-laws creating, otherwise legislating of the executive bodies. Analyzing the controversial issue of judicial legislating in the Roman-Germanic legal family, the author points out the different role of the court depending on either Roman or German group is ment. For the Roman legal family court practiceis a source of law, which is the most significant. The article concludes the overview of the forms of legislating related to the activities of the state indirectly. These include contract legislating and legislating of legal custom.