Acquisitive Prescription Requisites and the Need of their Reform
The article considered such requisites of acquisitive prescription as bona fide possession and possession of a thing as one’s own. The author reveals problems of their application existing in practice; analyzes the ways of possible changing article 234 of the Civil Сode of the Russian Federation, including a proposal to remove bona fide possession from necessary requisites of acquisitive prescription. The author comes to the conclusion that requisites of acquisitive prescription depend on its goals as a basis for acquisition of property rights: as a mode to fill in the missing basis for the acquisition of this right, or as a mode to replace the owner who has actually removed himself from the possession of the thing. In some cases, the law enforcement practice demonstrates the need for a broader understanding and application of the acquisitive prescription as the basis for the acquisition of property rights. This justifies the possibility of a differentiated approach to the presentation and interpretation of the requisites of the acquisitive prescription, but not their exception from the norms of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.