Constitutional foundations of the property rights of citizens and organizations for real estate

Objective to develop a comprehensive scientific conception of the constitutional foundations of the property rights of citizens and organizations for real estate. Methods general and specific scientific methods including formal logical methods hypothesis analysis synthesis deduction induction. The special methods included historical legaltechnical interdisciplinary comparativelegal systemic and other methods of scientific cognition. Results first the Constitution of the Russian Federation does not contain detailed regulation of property relations as they are regulated by the branches of Civil law. Therefore as certain property disputes affect substantial property interests of physical and juridical persons which are not under the protection of property rights in the traditional sense there is a need for a broad interpretation of the relevant provisions of the Russian Constitution. However the mixing of proprietary and contractual rights in this case does not occur. Second the Russian Civil Code reproducing and specifying the constitutional provisions as principles of private law form a direct normative basis of the whole civil law. However the constitutional law attributes a broader meaning to the notions of property and property right than the traditional civil law. Third the possible limitations of the Federal law of the rights of ownership use and disposition of property as well as freedom of entrepreneurship and freedom of contract must meet the requirements of justice to be adequate proportionate be of general and abstract character be not retroactive and not affect the essence of constitutional rights i.e. not limit the scope and application of the substantive content of the relevant constitutional norms.The possibility of such limitations and their nature must be determinedby the need to protect the significant values ndash the foundations of the constitutional system morality health rights and lawful interests of other persons provision of national defense and state security. Scientific novelty the article presents the study of the Russian constitutional court and the European court on human rights practices relatedto the issues of property rights of citizens and organizations on real estate. The author discusses the legal positions of the above judicial bodies in order to identify the legal challenges and gaps in the Russian legislation as well as to identify the areas for improvement of the civil legislation. Practical significance the research results can be used for the purposes of lawmaking to improve the standards of domestic constitutional and civil law. Certain provisions may be usedin judicial practice for the consideration and resolution of cases. Research proposals may also find application in the preparation of curricula textbooks and teaching courses on quotCivil lawquot quotLand lawquot quotProprietary rights for real estatequot. nbs