A work by one of the Russian Federation's leading legal scholars on the issues of juridical responsibility and legality, focusing on private law, i.e., civil, labor, and family law. Chapter headings are: 1. The concept of juridical responsibility in Soviet legal literature 2. Legal standards and state enforcement 3. Legal standards and sanction 4. Legal standards and juridical responsibility 5. Sanction and types of juridical responsibility 6. Basis of so-called objective responsibility 7. Fortifying and expanding judicial protection of subjective rights of citizens.