In the science of criminal procedure law, it is generally recognized that the sentence is an act of justice. However, in legislation and in theory, the concept of a sentence is defined in different ways, often to such an extent briefly that it does not reveal its main properties as an act of justice. If, from the point of view of the wording contained in the criminal procedural legislation, such an approach to the definition of the concept of a sentence is quite understandable and explainable (after all, first of all, the legal norm is of a general nature, impersonal, typical and cannot cover all possible situations that appear in life1 ) then it is hardly justified from a scientific standpoint. This necessitates the need to formulate such a concept of a sentence in the modern criminal process, which would reflect its features as fully as possible.