This article is about issue of possibility of reference of operative-investigatory law to independent branch of the Russian law. The author analyzes such signs of branch of law as a subject and a method of legal regulation from the point of view general theory of law with reference to operative-investigatory activity. The author has considered the elements has come to conclusion about preconditions of reckoning of operative-investigatory law among separate branchs of law
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