The General Provisions on Purchase and Sale in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-160
Author(s):  
Stephen Smith
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Market Economies ◽  
Western Market ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Russian Law ◽  
Broad Overview

AbstractThe author offers a critical examination of the provisions on purchase and sale in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. Focusing narrowly on the text of the code, the paper starts with a broad overview of, and commentary on, the provisions and then provides a detailed article-by-article commentary on individual provisions. Potential difficulties are identified (especially with respect to transfer of ownership, remedies, and the code's attempt to blend common and civil law approaches to sale) and suggestions are offered for how the text might be clarified or, in certain cases, substantively changed. In view of the broad similarity between the provisions on sale in the Russian code and the rules on contracts of sale applicable in Western market economies generally, the paper proposes neither far-ranging criticisms nor radical reforms of the Russian law.

The Provisions on Gift in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-100
Author(s):  
Stephen Smith
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Broad Overview

AbstractThe author offers a critical examination of the provisions on gift in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. Focusing narrowly on the text of the code, the paper starts with a broad overview of, and commentary on, the provisions and then provides a detailed article-by-article commentary on individual provisions. Potential difficulties are identified (especially with respect to the notion of transfer, the repetition of articles, and the code's development of the concept of fiducia) and suggestions are offered for how the text might be clarified or, in certain cases, substantively changed. The author observes that the legal framework provided by the Russian code to regulate gift is a fundamentally sound one that broadly echoes the approach taken in other civil law jurisdictions.

The General Provisions on Contract in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-76
Author(s):  
Stephen Smith
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
First Principle ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Broad Overview

AbstractThe author offers a critical examination of the general provisions on contract in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. Focusing narrowly on the text of the code, the paper starts with a broad overview of, and commentary on, the general provisions and their relation to other parts of the code, and then provides a detailed article-by-article commentary on individual provisions. Potential difficulties are identified and suggestions are offered for how the text might be clarified (and in particular simplified) or, in certaincases, substantively changed. The author contends that the general provisions provide for a legal framework that is appropriate in broad terms; however, individual articles in the provisions are not beyond criticism. The author makes clear that his criticisms and suggestions are largely at the level of fine-tuning, rather than first principle.

scholarly journals RUSSIAN LAW OF OBLIGATIONS REFORMED: THE CONSEQUENCES FOR THE INSTITUTE OF DAMAGES (LOSSES)

2021 ◽  
pp. 689-698
Author(s):  
Y. E. Monastyrsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Russian Law ◽  
Practice Methods

Introduction: of all the instruments of protection of subjective property rights, the fundamental role belongs to the institute of indemnification, whose regulatory framework needs to be clarified. The purpose of this paper is comparative description of the important legal aspects of the main type of property liability. In accordance with the purpose, the following objectives were set: to determine the extent to which legal provisions of general regulations on obligations laid down in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation should or can be applied to claims for damages; to formulate the proposals for improving the indemnification court practice. Methods: the methodological framework of the study consists of specific scholarly (special legal, comparative legal) and general scholarly (problem-theory, teleological, and system) methods of analysis. The main trends in the development of the institute of liability and the debatable aspects reflected in the Russian and foreign documents were studied with the use of the problem-theory and system analysis methods. Results: being a summary overview of the available knowledge and comparative regulatory material, this paper allowed us to articulate the ideas aimed at improving the fundamental principles of legal regulation of relations in the sphere of protection of subjective rights, in particular indemnification. Discussion: indemnification is a developing major institute of civil law, invariably attracting the attention of scholars around the world. Lately it has taken on special significance and some of its aspects have become a focus of a separate field of scholarly discussion. Many Russian scholars have written about indemnification in a comparative aspect: О. N. Sadikov, V. V. Baibak and others [2, 15]; this paper focuses on the reform of Russian law of obligations and the new provisions of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation of March 8, 2015 and reveals the consequences of the reform for the institute of damages, discussing this topic in detail as a separate standalone issue. Conclusion: we hope that this paper will contribute to further discussion in the civil law doctrine of the ideas and conclusions presented.

scholarly journals Digital rights under the civil law of the Russian Federation

2021 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 01024
Author(s):  
Armine Mograbyan
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Financial Assets ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Russian Law ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Positive Nature

The article discusses a new object of civil rights, which appeared as a result of the addition of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation with article 141.1 “Digital rights”. The features of the definition of digital rights in Russian civil law are revealed. Particular attention is paid to the formulation of the concept of digital rights contained in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. The author draws attention to the fact that according to Russian civil law, digital rights include only those that are directly named as such in the law, which indicates a legislative limitation of their turnover. In addition, the adopted laws on crowdfunding and digital financial assets were reviewed, as well as utilitarian digital rights and digital rights that relate to digital financial assets were analyzed. Attention is also drawn to other problems raised in the science of civil law regarding the modernization of Russian civil legislation in the field of digital rights. The author emphasizes the positive nature of the appearance in the Russian law of norms on digital rights, as an indicator of a legislative response to the digitalization of the economy and law, and a necessary prerequisite for further regulation of civil law relations changing under its influence.

SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT IN THE SYSTEM OF PRIVATE LAW

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-107
Author(s):  
M.D. TYAZHBIN
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article is dedicated to the category of subordination agreements. Based on the concept of conflict of rights in personam, the author makes an attempt to integrate this category into the system of private law, to determine the legal nature of subordination, and from these positions to assess the effectiveness of Art. 309.1 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, implemented in the course of the civil law reform.

scholarly journals An Alternative View of the Legal Regulation of Civil Law Relations in the Digital Economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 52-62
Author(s):  
L. G. Efimova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Electronic Document ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Law

The paper substantiates the author’s proposal to amend the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, which is explained by the gradual creation of a digital economy in the Russian Federation. In particular, the author has examined and solved the following problems of the legal regulation of civil law relations in the context of digitalization: the problem of identifying the object of digital rights, the problem of legal qualification of the electronic form of the transaction, the problem of using a smart contract in civil transactions, the problem of using blockchain technology to create mixed payment systems. The paper proposes a non-standard solution to each of these problems—the author has prepared a draft federal law "On Amendments to Parts One and Two of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation in terms of legal relations arising in cyberspace." In particular, the author proposes to define digital rights as the absolute and relative rights to digital property named in this capacity, the content and conditions of implementation of which are determined by the law and the rules of the information system (protocol) that meets the characteristics established by the law. In the author’s opinion, an electronic document can exist in the form of a machine information file of any format or a computer program that meets the characteristics of an electronic document.

scholarly journals Challenges of Compulsory Seizure of Private Property by the State through Requisition, Confiscation and Nationalization under the Civil Legislation of Russia

Lex Russica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-32
Author(s):  
E. V. Bogdanov
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
State Ownership ◽  
The State ◽  
State Responsibility ◽  
Additional Equipment ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
To Come

The existence of extraordinary circumstances, which should be understood as circumstances unavoidable under these conditions, constitutes the condition for requisition. The Civil Code of the Russian Federation gives state bodies a certain freedom in carrying out requisitions, as it is hardly possible to list all exceptional circumstances when additional equipment or other property will be required both to prevent the development of emergencies and to deal with their consequences.Civil law confiscation involves the termination of private property and the emergence of state ownership of confiscated property. Therefore, it is impossible to treat as confiscation the seizure of tengible media according to Para. 4 of Art. 1252 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, because they were produced in violation of the law and, therefore, ownership has not arisen. The paper also substantiates the conclusion that nationalization requires relevant property to come not into the property of the State, but into the national property. In the author’s opinion, the currently existing State property does not contain any hints of national property, and it can be stated that the Russian people even more than previously are removed from the property of the State and are excluded from State responsibility. Nationwide property serves as a foundation of the civil society.

Application of civil law in the regulation of labour relations

2021 ◽  
pp. 748-755
Author(s):  
A.V. Mayfat ◽  
M.A. Zhiltsov
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Labor Law ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Labor Disputes ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Common Situation

The article presents an analysis of situations in which civil law is applied in the regulation of labor relations. The authors note that civil law is applied in the regulation of labor relations in several cases. The most common situation is the reference rules provided for by the Labor Code of the Russian Federation itself, which directly provides for situations in which the courts can apply civil law rules when regulating labor relations. In some cases, if there is a gap in law, the courts apply the norms of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation when considering labor disputes, filling the gaps in the regulation of labor relations. In a number of cases, the Labor Code of the Russian Federation adopted civil law structures, although in this case it is no longer possible to talk about the application of civil law norms, since in the case of transferring these structures to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, they become labor law norms. Also, in practice, there are situations when, simultaneously with labor relations, other relations arise, including civil law relations. In these cases, the courts also apply civil law. The authors describe these situations, give examples from judicial practice, and also propose ways to solve the defects arising in the regulation of labor relations.

A.L. MAKOVSKY AND THE REVIVAL OF RUSSIAN PRIVATE LAW

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 8-17
Author(s):  
E.A. SUKHANOV
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Public Interests ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article highlights the role of prof. A.L. Makovsky in the creation of the new Civil Code of the Russian Federation of 1994–2006, as well as in the organization of the practice of its application and the development of the Concept for the Development of Civil Legislation of the Russian Federation in 2009. Special attention is paid to the activities of A.L. Makovsky on the preparation of the Fourth Part of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation and the concept of intellectual rights enshrined by it, opposing the traditional archaic concept of “intellectual property”. The importance of the need to increase the attention of civil law to the issue of protecting the rights and interests of citizens and other weakest participants in civil legal relations in their opposition to the interests of large companies striving to take a privileged position in property turnover is shown. From this point of view, the author substantiates the need for a significant adjustment in the understanding of the balance of private and public interests, which is the basis of civil law regulation.

scholarly journals The Features of the Content and Subject Composition of Settlement Agreements in Cases of Invalidity of Transactions

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 310-319
Author(s):  
Valeriya Goncharova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Relevant Category ◽  
Settlement Agreements ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Russian Federation

Settlement agreements in civil and arbitration proceedings are one of the most convenient and effective ways to resolve disputes arising between participants in civil legal relations. At the same time, within the framework of some civil disputes, the content of settlement agreements has significant specificity, and sometimes – due to the peculiarities of the subject composition and the merits of the case – they cannot be applied at all for the purpose of reconciling the parties. An example of such disputes are cases related to the recognition of the transaction as invalid and the application of the consequences of the invalidity of the transaction, the legal regulation of which is unique. The economic reasons for the invalidity of transactions predetermine the peculiarities of the content of settlement agreements in the relevant category of cases, limiting it exclusively to the procedure for fulfilling restorative obligations and obligations to compensate for losses. This circumstance is due to the fact that, from the point of view of the dynamics of civil legal relations, an invalid transaction introduces uncertainty in the ownership of property and the distribution of rights and obligations of the participants in legal relations, which can be eliminated only by restoring the situation that existed before the conclusion and execution of the transaction with a defect. The current civil law regulation in this part (Article 4311 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation), which allows the conclusion of analogues of amicable agreements in cases of invalidity of transactions involving other, in addition to restitution, the consequences of the invalidity of transactions, in this regard, cannot be recognized as satisfactory. Contestation of the transaction by “another person specified in the law” (Article 166 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation), as well as in the interests of third parties by specially authorized entities (procedural plaintiffs), the possibility of participation in a completed and executed transaction of public law entities determine the raising of questions about the possibility of concluding amicable agreements by these entities. It is noted that these subjects, as follows from the analysis of domestic civil, civil procedural, administrative and family legislation, being interested in resolving the case on recognizing the transaction as invalid and on the application of the consequences of its invalidity, do not participate in its execution, and therefore cannot determine the procedure for the fulfillment of obligations arising from it.

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