Contracts and Property rights

There are some essential elements of a valid contract in English law:
Mutual agreement or meeting of the minds
(a valid offer and acceptance)
and
Consideration (something of value given in exchange for a promise)

Consideration
Consideration means “something for something”
The mutual promises must be real, not illusory
Consideration can’t be past
A moral obligation is not consideration

A question
Can English people conclude a contract of Gift?

Important terms (to watch the film)
Valid contract – действительный договор, имеющий силу; правомерный
Requirements
Legal capacity
Consideration - возмещение, компенсация, вознаграждение, встречное предоставление
Mentally competent - психически здоровый, вменяемый
Offer
Acceptance

Assent – согласие, одобрение
Terminate -заканчиваться, завершаться
Revocation - отмена, аннулирование
Rejection -отказ; неприятие, отклонение
Counter offer-встречное предложение, встречная офферта
Laps of time – истечение срока
Illegality -незаконность, противозаконность
Death

Insanity -безумие, умопомешательство
Detriment - ущерб, вред
A promised gift
Pre-existing duty
The objective Theory of contracts

THE CC OF THE RF
РАЗДЕЛ II
ПРАВО СОБСТВЕННОСТИ
И ДРУГИЕ ВЕЩНЫЕ ПРАВА
(ART. 209 – 270)

You should read and study:
Art. 209 – 217
Art. 218, 223, 224
Art. 235,
Art. 244 - 246,252 - 254,256

The Content of the Right of Ownership
(право собственности)
The owner shall be entitled to the rights:
of the possession,
the use and
the disposal of his proper
(Art. 209)

The forms of ownership (Art. 212)
In the Russian Federation shall be recognized
the private,
the state,
the municipal and
the other forms of ownership.
It means that the property may be in the ownership of the citizens and of the legal entities, and also of the Russian Federation, of the subjects of the Russian Federation and of the municipal entities

Article 218. The Grounds for the Acquisition of the Right of Ownership
The right of ownership to a new thing, manufactured or created by the person for himself, shall be acquired by this person. This person acquires the right of ownership to the fruits, the products and the incomes, derived through the use of the property.
The right of ownership to the property, which has its owner, may be acquired by the other person on the grounds of the contract of the purchase and sale, of the exchange and of making a gift, or on the ground of another kind of the deal on the alienation of this property. In the case of the citizen's death, the right of ownership to the property he has owned shall pass by the right of succession to the other persons in conformity with the will or with the law.

Article 218. The Grounds for the Acquisition of the Right of Ownership
In the cases and in the order, stipulated by the present Code, the person may acquire the right of ownership to the ownerless property, to the property, whose owner is unknown, and to the property, which the owner has renounced or to which he has lost the right of ownership on the other law-stipulated grounds.

Arising of the Right of Ownership to the Newly Created Realty
The right of ownership to the buildings, the structures and the other newly created realty, subject to the state registration, shall arise from the moment of state registration.

The Rights of Estate of the Persons, Who Are Not the Owners (вещные права) (Art. 216)
The rights of estate shall be, alongside the right of ownership:
the right of the inherited life possession of the land plot (Article 265);
the right of the permanent (perpetual) use of the land plot (Article 268);
the servitudes (сервитут) (Articles 274 and 277);
the right of the economic management of the property (Article 294)
and the right of the operation management of the property (Article 296).

The Grounds for the Cessation (прекращение) of the Right of Ownership (Art. 235)
The right of ownership shall cease:
with the alienation (отчуждение) by the owner of his property in favor of the other persons,
with the owner's renouncement (отказ) of his right of ownership,
with the perish (гибель) or the destruction of the property
and with the loss of the right of ownership in the other law-stipulated cases.

The alienation of the property is possible
only in the cases, stipulated by the laws.
For example, in cases of:
the requisition (Article 242);
the confiscation (Article 243);
the nationalization (The Federal law on foreign investment of capital )
The turning into the state ownership of the property, which is in the ownership of the citizens and of the legal entities (the nationalization), shall be effected on the ground of the law with the recompensing of the cost of this property and of the other losses in conformity with the procedure, laid down by Article 306 of the present Code.

The Common Property (общая собственность)
(Art. 244)
The property, which is in the ownership of two or of several persons, shall belong to them by the right of common ownership.

The Common Property
Can be of two types
the share ownership
(долевая)
the joint ownership
(совместная)

The share ownership
and the joint ownership (Art. 244)
The property may be in the common ownership, with the share of each of the owners in the right of ownership defined (the share ownership), or not defined (the joint ownership).
The common ownership of the property shall be the share ownership, with the exception of the cases, when the law stipulates the formation of the joint ownership to this property.

How to determine Participatory Share?
(Art. 245)
If the shares of the participants in the share ownership cannot be defined on the ground of the law and have not been established by an agreement between all its participants, the shares shall be regarded as equal.
By an agreement between all the participants in the share ownership, the order of defining and amending their shares, which would depend on the contribution of each of them into the formation and the increment of the common property, may be established.

Disposal (распоряжение) of the Property in the Share Ownership
The disposal of the property, which is in the share ownership, shall be effected in accordance with the agreement between all its participants.
The participant in the share ownership shall have the right at his own discretion to sell, to make a gift of, to leave by will, or to pledge his share, or to dispose of it in any other way

Possession, Use and Disposal of the Property in the Joint Ownership
(Art. 253)
The participants in the joint ownership, unless otherwise stipulated by the agreement between them, shall possess and use the common property jointly.
The property in the joint ownership shall be disposed of by the consent of all the participants, which shall be presumed regardless of which particular participant performs the deal, involved in the disposal of the property.

For example:
A husband can sell any thing which is within the joint property of spouses, the consent of his wife is presumed.

Division of the Property in the Joint Ownership and the Setting Apart of a Share from It
(Art. 254)
The division of the common property between the participants in the joint ownership, as well as the setting apart of the share of one of them may be effected after making a preliminary estimate of the share of each of the participants in the right to the common property.

The Community Property
(common ownership of Spouses –
общее имущество супругов)
(Art. 256)
The property, accumulated by the spouses during their married life, shall be their joint, or community property, unless another regime has been established for this property by an agreement between them.