Scientific Journal of KubSAU

In the article, legal norms of barter agreement are exposed to the detailed analysis. They were fixed earlier in the Civil Codes of RSFSR 1922 and 1964. The authors analyze the modern legal adjusting of barter agreement in the operating Civil Code of the Russian Federation. Characterizing signs of barter agreements are investigated and they allow distinguishing it from a bargain and sale. It is marked that the barter agreement got the detailed regulation of relations only in the operating Civil Code of the Russian Federation. The purview of norms about the agreement of barter broadened in course of time. That was taken into account by a legislator. A modern legislation regulates the features of relations arising up in connection with execution and conclusion of treaty of barter. Earlier operating legislative acts did not take into consideration many questions, related to the relations of barter, arising up in practice. Soviet scientists examined some questions that were and remain now without adjusting or require a specification from a legislator. For example, concerning Civil Codes of RSFSR 1922 and 1964, the imperfection of legal determination of agreement of barter was marked. This decision did not take into account that commodities were passed in property of another side. Modern legislator names it a "commodity the object of the barter agreements. In the same time in practice there is a lot of questions about possibility of applying property rights to the object of the barter agreement. Other critical remarks about the rules of the barter agreement in the civil legislation of RSFSR and the Russian Federation were done by the author in the article