Circumstances that influenced the civil-legal status of individuals in pre-revolutionary Russia

Relevance. The legislation of pre-revolutionary Russia contained legal norms that endowed private law entities with a certain legal status depending on the natural and social characteristics and properties of individuals. At present, in modern Russia, in connection with the transition to the digital economy, the issue of the principles and methods of communicating to a wide range of participants in civil circulation in the digital environment information using digital communication tools about the circumstances that individualize individuals and influence their legal status is becoming very relevant. Therefore, the results of the study of the principles of notification of participants in property circulation about the civil and legal status of subjects in pre-revolutionary Russia can provide invaluable assistance to modern civilistics and practice, the legislator and law enforcement officer, and the subjects of civil law themselves.

The purpose of this study is to examine the issue of the principles of notification of participants in civil transactions about circumstances that influenced the civil status of individuals, formulated by science and enshrined in prerevolutionary legislation.

Objectives: to identify natural and social characteristics and properties of individuals that influenced their legal status; to study the principles of notification of participants in civil transactions about circumstances that influenced the legal status of Russian citizens.

Methodology. The study was conducted using general, general scientific and special methods of scientific and legal knowledge, including methods of induction, deduction, synthesis, analysis, as well as comparative legal, historical-legal and systemic-functional methods of knowledge.

Results. During the research, circumstances were identified that influenced the private legal status of Russian citizens, and methods for communicating information about them to other participants in civil transactions, as enshrined in pre-revolutionary legislation, were determined.

Conclusions. The dissemination to subjects of private law relations of information about circumstances that influenced the legal status of individuals in pre-revolutionary Russia was carried out on the basis of the principles of public and non-public notification in order to ensure the stability of civil circulation.

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