Орловський, Богдан МихайловичOrlovskyi, Bohdan M.Орловский, Богдан Михайлович2015-09-182015-09-182015Evropský politický a právní diskurzhttps://dspace.onu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/7221Evropský politický a právní diskurz. - 2015. - Vidani 3. - Svazek 2. - C. 57-63.The article investigates the criminal law norms about actual and legal error in the criminal legislation of countries belonging to continental legal system. The author carries out a comparative legal analysis of these norms according to certain criteria and makes generalize findings. In the title of it may look like «surmountable and insurmountable error» (Criminal Code of the Kingdom of Spain) «error in the factual circumstances of the act or error in the prohibition» (Criminal Code of the Federal Republic of Germany), «erroneous misconception of the circumstances of the case or an error in the prohibition » (Criminal Code of Switzerland), etc. Based on this study the author made a general conclusion about the possibility to define in the Article 37 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine an «error in circumstances, excluding criminality of act», instead of the existing concept of imaginary defense.ukimaginary defensean actual errora legal erroran error in circumstances excluding criminality of acta basis to exclude criminal responsibilityArticle