UNFAIR CONTRACT TERMS IN THE CIVIL LAW OF RUSSIA AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES

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The article is devoted to some problematic issues of research of unfair contract terms in the civil law of Russia and foreign countries. The author attempts to form an idea of such a legal phenomenon as unfair conditions of the contract of the foreign legislation analysis basis and doctrinal positions of the Russian civilists. The defi nition of this concept is developed and its legal signs are identifi ed, such as the substantial sign which assumes that the contract condition does not illegal, but are burdensome for one party of the contract and essentially violates balance interests of the parties agreement; a procedural feature that implies that an unfair condition was included in the contract as a result of unconscientious conduct of the party that developed these conditions, imposing its will on the weak party of the contract.

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E. M. Tuzhilova-Ordanskaya

Department of Civil Law, Institute of Law, Bashkir State University

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Email: grigorjewa.katerina@yandex.ru
Russian Federation

E. V. Fedulina

Departm ent of Civil Law, Institut of Law, Bashkir State University

Email: grigorjewa.katerina@yandex.ru
Russian Federation

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