Abstract
Considers the conditions of the origin of moral responsibility and legal responsibility types of social responsibility in the process of emergence and development of human society. The characteristic of the taboos and customs of the tribal system, the transformation of customs in the common law. In connection with the emergence of religious responsibility is the text of the book of the dead, providing for the afterlife court, which established guilt and punishment of the deceased. The first legislative acts adopted by the government at an early stage of its development, represented the customary laws of the tribal system.