LEGAL CUSTOM AS MEAN OF SELF-REGULATION OF PROPRIETARY CIVIL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE CURRENT CONTEXT
Abstract
The article is devoted to consideration features of legal custom as mean of self-regulation of proprietary civil relationships in Ukraine in the current context and to determination its place in system of legal instruments of managing appropriate social relationships.
The author deeply comprehends the normative provisions fixed in Art. 7 of Civil Code of Ukraine, which display modern legislative assessment of instrumental potential of legal custom as legal mean of self-regulation of proprietary civil relationships. It’s defined the main signs of legal custom that are: 1) non-fixation by legislative acts; 2) well-established character in defined sphere of civil relationships.
It’s justified that non-fixation by legislative acts as sign of legal custom can be disclosed in two aspects. The first is the order of establishing appropriate practice. Its formation lies in practice of establishing and acceptation of appropriate rule by participants of civil legal relationship by themselves in particular by cooperative matching of wills. The second aspect concretizes form of existence of legal custom. It’s determined that practice rule usually exists in undocumented form but can be fixed in documents. But fixation of rules of legal custom in legislative act transforms them to legislative provisions so they lose their customary character.
It’s defined that having assessed character “well-established” as sign of legal custom is not disclosed by current legislative provisions of Ukraine and thus generates additional problems in practice of identification legal customs.
The author states that in connection with poor flexibility of legal custom as mean of self-regulation of social relationships a contract and unilateral acts as means of self-regulation of proprietary civil relationships and legal act as instrument of centralized regulation became more valuable. Appropriate approach is displayed in art. 7 of Civil Code of Ukraine.
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