Russian Federation
Codification of civil legislation is not a one-time random phenomenon in law; it is preceded by a long and meticulous work which in modern Russia pursues the aims of creating legislation sources’ system levels that ensure stable, large-scale and comprehensive legal regulation of market relations required by the turnover. Work on modernization and renewal of the Civil Code forms an integral part of codification, it shows dynamic development of the system of civil legislation. Objectives of the civil legislation codification in ХХ—ХХI involve elimination of contradictions in legislation, regulatory consolidation of new law doctrines, well-established in law enforcement practice, their structuring in the sources of civil legislation system, rationalization of legal regulations. Status of legislation and its evaluation predetermine the tendencies of its development in future, allow forecasting, designating possible risks and priorities of the law-making process.
Sources and system of civil legislation, reform of civil legislation, development tendencies of civil legislation, codification of civil legislation.
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