THE EARNEST IN THE RUSSIAN CIVIL LAW

On the basic of historic construction the legal sense of earnest regulation is considered having been adopted from the past word by word. This doesn’t amount to main objective implementation of this remedy to make contractual conditions of future agreement binding on parties subject to the broad autonomy of will. Legal provisions on earnest don’t correspond to categories of “liability”, “unilateral transaction”. The regulation should promote such tools as “compensations form release of obligation”, “offer”, “penalty”, “preliminary contract”. At present the institute of earnest isn’t operational and applicable only within the market of residential real estate so far. The efforts were made to present the renewed legal provisions on earnest as normative basis of this legal instrument having long spread over the limits of ordinary obligation security measure.