Current Issues in Reforming the Institution of Acquisitive Prescription in Russia, England, Hong Kong and Australia

The author examines the problems of reforming the institution of acquisitive prescription in Russia, England, Hong Kong and Australia, and suggests some ways to solve them. The study was conducted with the aim of a detailed study of the institution of acquisitive prescription in continental and Anglo-American legal families. In addition, the author sets the goal of establishing the influence of foreign experience of changing the provisions on acquisitive prescription on the Russian reform of prescription ownership based on a comparative legal analysis of the already carried out legislative reform in England and the proposed changes in the real law of Russia, Hong Kong and Australia. The author makes conclusions on the controversial nature of the alleged provision on the rejection of the criterion of good faith of prescription ownership in Russia, on the narrowness of the declared goal of the Russian reform of the institution of acquisitive prescription; the indirect influence of the foreign experience of reforms in the jurisdictions of the Anglo-American legal system on the Russian reform of property law has been established.

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