INHERITANCE CONTRACT IN HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE LEGAL PERSPECTIVE
https://doi.org/10.24412/2225-8264-2025-3-1014
Abstract
The article examines the genesis of the inheritance contract and its ramifications in various legal systems, using the comparative legal method. The prepared review should serve as a basis for understanding the legal nature of the inheritance contract, the formation of the relevant legislative framework, as well as its interpretation, including in the process of law enforcement. The author comes to the conclusion that the attitude to the inheritance contract has been ambiguous since ancient times, while the reason at all times remains its «immorality» (inadmissibility of «irrevocability»), subject to cultural factors rather than the strictness of legal structures. It has been established that inheritance relations objectively require contractual regulation, therefore the practical needs of civil turnover in various legal systems are somehow satisfied by various analogues or unique versions of the inheritance contract.
About the Author
I. M. Chelpanov
Ural Institute of Administration of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Civil service under the President of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ivan M. Chelpanov, Postgraduate of the Department of Civil Law and Procedure
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Chelpanov I.M. INHERITANCE CONTRACT IN HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE LEGAL PERSPECTIVE. Herald of Siberian Institute of Business and Information Technologies. 2025;14(3):124-129. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24412/2225-8264-2025-3-1014
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