Properties of Civil Law Services and Issues of Execution of a Contract for the Provision of Paid Services in Judicial Practice (Using the Example of Real Estate Activity)

Services in the field of civil law relations are becoming widespread. These processes increase the relevance of their study by scientists of different specialties: lawyers, economists, specialists in the field of information and communication technologies and others, including at the junction of various social sciences. A number of issues related to the functioning of the service market remain controversial, including the essence of the service and its properties. In civil law, services were studied by legal scholars both in the pre-revolutionary and subsequent periods as objects of civil rights and legal relations, the subject of civil law contracts, etc. The author attempts to identify all the properties of the service contained in the economic and legal scientific literature studied by him, establishes their hierarchy, and proposes a mega-property of the service. Insufficient development of legal issues of services contributes to a multitude of litigation on the execution of contracts for the provision of paid services. The article considers in detail the issues of registration of the fact of rendering services, and gives an assessment of the business habit (business custom) that has developed in the provision of services. The requirements for the act of acceptance and transfer of services to resolve disputes between counterparties are formulated.