Abstract: In the light of the development of the draft of a new edition of the Civil Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan, new approaches to the definition of the concept, legal capacity, constituent documents of a legal entity, the emergence and forms of legal entities, state registration, bodies of a legal entity, the name and location of a legal entity have been determined, and prospects for development and improvement of these definitions in the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and the peculiarities of providing this process with the spread of coronavirus infection. It is determined that a legal entity is an organization that has a separate property, which can be responsible for its obligations, can acquire and exercise civil rights and bear obligations. It is proposed to create an exhaustive list of legal forms of legal entities and include all forms in the civil code, taking into account the current version. The article analyzes the reasons for the formation of legal entities, which should occur through the establishment of a new legal entity, or through the reorganization of legal entities. It is also determined that legal entities act on the basis of constituent documents provided for by law for a specific organizational and legal form. The article substantiates the provision that in addition to state registration, it is necessary to provide for re-registration of legal entities. Proposals are formulated to improve the civil legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the field of regulating the legal status of legal entities and to include these provisions in the draft of the new version of the Civil Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan.