A refusal to exercise rights under the contract on the basis of the provisions of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation


Cite item

Full Text

Abstract

In this study, the author was interested in the legislative approach to the conditions and methods of implementing the provisions of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation (RF Civil Code), which consider the possibility of a refusal to exercise rights under the contract as an exception to the general rule, when such refusal in the future will entail the inadmissibility of repeated exercise of this right for the same reasons. The author analyzed certain norms of the RF Civil Code, when provisions on a refusal to exercise rights under the contract found their application in specific situations. Such norms of the RF Civil Code confirmed the main goal of the legislator when introducing the provisions under study. It consists in ensuring that business entities fully use the freedom of a contract, exercise their rights in the contract at their own discretion, exercise the right of a refusal, but do not seek to abuse the freedom granted to them. As a part of the analysis of the RF Civil Code norms, the author identified the conditions and methods for implementing the provisions on a refusal to exercise rights, the consequences of such a refusal, as well as distinctive features allowing distinguishing the provisions under study from the RF Civil Code provisions on the repudiation of a contract (its execution) as a whole. Conclusions are drawn that allow understanding the legal sufficiency and practical necessity of applying the studied provisions of the RF Civil Code in civil circulation.

 

About the authors

Igor Vladimirovich Mashtakov

Togliatti State University, Togliatti

Author for correspondence.
Email: i.mashtakov@tltsu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3797-9158

PhD (Law), Associate Professor, assistant professor of Chair “Civil Law and Procedure”

Russian Federation

References

  1. Batrova T.A. Foisting of unfavorable contractual terms on a counterparty by trade networks. Konkurentnoe pravo, 2022, no. 4, pp. 16–19. EDN: KBLQJA.
  2. Chegovadze L.A. A contract as a normative source of private law. Vestnik Permskogo universiteta. Yuridicheskie nauki, 2023, no. 2, pp. 330–348. EDN: IUTXRI.
  3. Chegovadze L.A. Inadmissible repudiation of an obligation and admissible repudiation of an agreement. Grazhdanskoe pravo, 2021, no. 3, pp. 12–16. EDN: DEYIZS.
  4. Nozdracheva A.Yu. Review of judicial practice on the correlation of the institution of debt forgiveness with related statutory concepts. Vestnik ekonomicheskogo pravosudiya Rossiyskoy Federatsii, 2019, no. 7, pp. 202–223. EDN: VLOYGY.
  5. Dolinskaya V.V. Interests in civil turnover, their registration and ensuring their balance. Zakony Rossii: opyt, analiz, praktika, 2021, no. 2, pp. 9–22. EDN: SOOPET.
  6. Kovalenko A.A. The estoppel doctrine within the framework of the principle of good faith in the judicial practice of the Russian Federation. Yurist, 2023, no. 3, pp. 55–60. doi: 10.18572/1812-3929-2023-3-55-60.
  7. Belyaeva K.K. Waiver from a comparative perspective. Vestnik grazhdanskogo prava, 2017, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 7–51. EDN: YSROIN.
  8. Vlasova E.D. The institute of waiver of law: application in Russia and in foreign law systems. Leningradskiy yuridicheskiy zhurnal, 2018, no. 1, pp. 85–98. EDN: YWRIWO.
  9. Nam K.V. The principle of good faith. System and nonsystem. Vestnik grazhdanskogo prava, 2019, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 28–74. EDN: YZXZMD.
  10. Sarkisyan A.V., Novoselnov D.A. On the waiver and its consequences. Vestnik ekonomicheskogo pravosudiya Rossiyskoy Federatsii, 2017, no. 4, pp. 93–131. EDN: YMDGPJ.
  11. Somenkov S.A. Concept of unilateral refusal to execute a contract in the framework of civil legislation reform. Zakony Rossii: opyt, analiz, praktika, 2014, no. 11, pp. 85–91. EDN: SYLAAL.
  12. Kadulin A.V. Selected issues of application of norms of retention in the practice of the Arbitration court for the North-Western Region. Arbitrazhnye spory, 2023, no. 1, pp. 3–26. EDN: JKRXGD.
  13. Bykanov D.D. Director’s liability for transactions with conflict of interests: the meaning of shareholders’ consent and the problem of double recovery. Imushchestvennye otnosheniya v Rossiyskoy Federatsii, 2021, no. 5, pp. 76–84. EDN: JFUGRR.
  14. Demkina A.V. Concept of unilateral refusal to execute a contract or rights under the contract: new rules of the Civil Code. Imushchestvennye otnosheniya v Rossiyskoy Federatsii, 2015, no. 11, pp. 57–65. EDN: UXLRFN.
  15. Karkhalev D.N. Mekhanizm grazhdansko-pravovogo regulirovaniya okhranitelnykh otnosheniy [Mechanism of civil legal regulation of protective relations]. Moscow, Infotropik Media Publ., 2022. 892 p.
  16. Egorov A.V. Unilateral employer’s refusal of a contract of work and labour: key practice issues. Vestnik grazhdanskogo prava, 2018, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 53–102. EDN: XUZEMX.
  17. Karkhalev D.N. Refusal of a contract (performance under the contract) or from the exercise of contractual rights. Sovremennoe pravo, 2018, no. 4, pp. 47–51. EDN: UPKZNG.
  18. Maltsev D.A., Lugovskoy I.K. Silence as a contractual expression of will. Vestnik grazhdanskogo prava, 2023, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 81–111. EDN: LIRDZY.
  19. Tomsinov A.V. Damages for breach of supply contracts. Zakon, 2019, no. 3, pp. 56–66. EDN: ZAWBIL.
  20. Gromov A.A. Consequences of premature termination of a lease if there is a sublet (Part 2). Vestnik ekonomicheskogo pravosudiya Rossiyskoy Federatsii, 2021, no. 8, pp. 82–129. EDN: RNPNCL.

Supplementary files

Supplementary Files
Action
1. JATS XML

Copyright (c)



This website uses cookies

You consent to our cookies if you continue to use our website.

About Cookies