General Features of the System of Principles of Agrarian Law

The features of the system of modern principles of agrarian law were considered in the article. Attention was drawn to the lack of unity and significant differences between individual author positions in formulating a system of such principles in both qualitative and quantitative aspects. The reason for this situation, which is the opposition of objective and subjective principles in the nature of the principles of agrarian law, has been revealed. The predominance of the subjective component leads to the diversity of the principles proposed by scientists, which should not be invented, but discovered. The inconsistency of the subjective vision of scientists with the objective nature of the principles causes the ineffectiveness of the norms that are a consequence of the implementation of such principles in the normative array. Insufficient level of disclosure of theoretical nuances of formation of principles of agrarian law leads to their identification with tasks of agrarian law as branch of law. It has been stated that most scholars introduce a two-level differentiation of the principles of agrarian law into general and branch (special) ones. Attention was sharpened in the absence of the principles of the intersectoral level in most of the systems proposed today, which leads to unnecessary duplication at the level of sectoral (special) principles. The identification of common law and constitutional principles used in the theory of agrarian law has been criticized. The introduction of a six-tier structure of the system of principles of agrarian law in terms of general (international and national), intersectoral, sectoral, sub-sectoral, institutional and sub-institutional principles was justified. Keywords: agrarian law, principle, the principle of agrarian law, system of principles of agrarian law, structure of principles of agrarian law