Negative Easements in the Russian Civil Law and in the Legislation of Foreign Countries

The legal definition of easements has long been viewed as a complicated aspect of both property law and contract law. This paper explain the structure of negative easements in Russian civil law and in the foreign legislation namely, the United Kingdom, United States of America and France. This institution consists in different legal systems, therefore in these systems negative easement have some various definition and related institutions: restrictive covenants, urban planning act or servitudes of light and view. The relevance of this study caused by development of civil law relations in Russian legal field. The globalization in different sphere of social interactions (including people’s right to the city), generalization various law institutions including property law shifts the issue of developing easement regulation in Russian civil law.