Illegality of abuse of right

Abstract

The subject of the study is the issue of correlation between illegality and abuse of right. Such aspects of illegal behaviour as violation of general principles of law and legal obligations are considered. Various doctrinal concepts and views on the abuse of right and its illegality, as well as approaches of judicial practice to this issue are analysed. 

As a result, it was established that the abuse of right is always illegal, in view of which the concept of so-called «legal abuse of right» cannot exist, because it is not a legal, but a philosophical category. From the legal point of view «legal abuse of right» is nothing more than the exercise of right, and therefore any reasoning about it is devoid of practical sense, while in the violation of the obligation not to use the right with the exclusive purpose of causing harm to others and lies the wrongfulness of the abuse of right. 

The article also considers the essence of wrongfulness as a violation of general legal principles and legal duties, from which the author concludes that any concepts claiming to substantiate the essence of wrongfulness with the help of any type of legal understanding are untenable. Otherwise, there will remain logical contradictions, as well as gaps in legal regulation that have not been filled.

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