DEVELOPMENT OF THEORIES OF SUCCESSION IN THE RUSSIAN CIVIL LAW

Exploring issues of succession is one of the most pressing problems of civil rights in the light of the recurring conflicts of law in transactions, inheritance, reorganization of legal entities. However, this legal aspect, is not enough attended in the domestic scientific literature, despite the fact that the institution of succession is important in the regulation of the procedures vesting and transfer of rights. The article examines the main issues of formation theories of succession in the Russian civil law. The article describes the main stages of development, based on the historical development of Russian law. In the selection stages, the author uses the historical approach. Examined fundamental works of Russian scientists in the field of succession in late nineteenth early and mid-twenties centuries. The article examines the impact of the Russian legislation on the development of theories of succession. Expresses the position of the strong impact of law on the development of theories about the transfer of rights. The article also studied development of the Institute of succession in Roman law, and its influence on Russian law. In the conclusion of article author expresses the opinion that the main problem in the study of succession is reduced to an ambiguous definition the process of the transfer of rights, which resulted in the existence of two completely different theoretical approaches to this institution. By the conclusion of this article include the following: during all stages of development, the theory of succession, has never been considered separately from the jurist domestic legislation. Thus, we can conclude that in the domestic civil law has developed a rigorous understanding of the applied value of the succession as a theory in relation to the material world. In this paper, the main methods of the study were: a historical, comparative, method of definitions. The sources used in article is books and research works of the authors - the scientists who worked on the problem of the transfer of rights.