THE PROBLEM OF DUALISM OF MANDATORY RULES
IN THE LIGHT OF APPLICATION OF THE ARTICLE 168
OF THE CIVIL CODE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.
ANSWER TO THE ARTICLE BY A.G. KARAPETOV
AND D.O. TUZOV

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E.A. EVSTIGNEEV 

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DOI: 10.24031/1992-2043-2018-18-3-7-52

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The author of the article presents a new direction for discussion as to the consequences
of violating the requirements of law. The author supports the idea that the Article 168
of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation applies only to the rules-prohibitions and
suggests a new approach as to determining the consequences of non-compliance of the
terms of transaction with other mandatory rules. Also the author attempts to create
a new doctrinal approach as to the rules-prohibitions. The article is written in a form
of a discussion with the authors suggesting an alternative opinion.

 

Keywords: norm-prohibition; exclusively mandatory rule; negative mandatory rule;
positive mandatory rule; nullity; challengeability.

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Information about the author

Evstigneev E.A. (Moscow) – Candidate of Legal Sciences, Master of Jurisprudence
(Russian School of Private Law), Consultant of the Alexeev Private Law
Research Centre under the President of the Russian Federation (103132, Moscow,
Ilyinka St. 8, Bldg. 2; e-mail: e_evstigneev@mail.ru).