Summary

The article treats upon some problems of legal sociology in relation to the legal procedure:

1) legal procedure is contrasted to the contract and referred to the similarity of the procedure and game;

2) the point of view is supported according to which in the interests of the defining of the object of investigation it is expedient to treat as the procedure only such processes of the formation of decisions and those of the achievement of consensus which are directed to a just division of scanty resources of the society and of imposts (e.g. responsibility) and the results of which are acceptable as binding in the society;

3) a brief survey of the relations between the procedure and justice as well as between the procedure and legitimacy is represented.