Abstract: The categories “dispute” and “conflict” are one of basic in the legal theory as so far there is the person there will be both conflicts and disputes. Disclosure of the legal contents which is put in them and accurate determination the ratio of these concepts concerning each other has basic value as in the legal theory and practice. In the study, the analysis of the existing approaches to the understanding of the content of the concepts “conflict” and “dispute” of the substantive and procedural law is carried out. The conclusion that the all-procedural categories “legal conflict” and “legal dispute” correspond among themselves as the general and private is drawn. Legal dispute represents the kind of the legal conflict and respectively, possesses the main lines of the category, patrimonial for itself and distinctive signs.