The article examines the influence of inducing motives on the subject of legal relations based on the study of regulatory and legal sources that form the basis of legislative regulation of actions induced by a motive. The relevance of the research is due to the fact that the phenomenon of motive penetrates into most social spheres due to the diversity of public relations. Special attention is paid to the correlation of the phenomenon of law with the theoretical aspect of the internal motivation of the subject. As a result of the research, a unique approach is identified that forms a separate idea of the essence of motivation in law, and special criteria for classifying a legal motive are proposed

В статье рассматриваются вопросы формирования мотива поведения личности под воздействием права. Изложены внутренние и внешние побуждающие факторы. Особое внимание уделено таким понятиям, как мотивация, стимулирование, желание, побуждение.