The article is devoted to understanding and importance of conditional verity of legal consciousness that paves the way for perceiving unconditional verity that stays at the top of the formally logical knowledge and determines it. The current state of the Russian society, state, consciousness, culture, the necessity of working out the national idea, stateand-law ideology and corresponding politics, new geopolitical reality encourage further indepth study of legal consciousness, the perception of its theoretical verity, the uncovering of practical significance in providing foundation of the state-and-law life. According to the materialistic patetrn, legal consciousness, like consciousness in general, is the reflection of the state-and-law and any other substantive world, the product of the process undergoing in a human brain. Its basis is formed by the knowledge obtained with the help of sense perception organs. The determination of verity is linked with the ideas and reasons which reflect substantive reality in an adequate way. Conditional verity is acquired with the sense perception, logical thinking, rational knowledge emerging in the definite historical surroundings and changes in accordance with the alterations of these conditions