Genesis and Development of Easement Regulation in Russia

The purpose of the research. The article deals with issues related to the stages of development of easement regulation in Russia from the pre-revolutionary period to the present. The purpose of the research is to identify the sources of the formation of easement regulation in Russia, as well as the trends of its development. Results. As a result of the analysis of historical documents and doctrinal researches, the authors came to the conclusion about the emergence of legal constructions of the easement type in Russia in the XVII century with the adoption of the Cathedral Code of 1649. Subsequently, they were detailed and expanded in the Code of Laws of the Russian Empire of 1835, and then in the draft Civil Code of the Russian Empire. However, it was the Soviet period of the country's development that predetermined the specifics of the easement regulation in Russia, which is characterised by the division of classical easements into "private" and "public". The demand for public easements in modern civil circulation has led to active rule-making in this direction.

easements, private easements, public easements, natural resource easements, legal easements, limited rights in rem, rights in rem reform