The System of Civil Procedural Acts and Areas of Improvement of the Russian Procedural Legislation

The article deals with the problem of defining the concept, properties and types of civil procedural acts. The author proposes to understand procedural acts as resolutions of the court and other state authorities related to the consideration and resolution of a civil case, notarized documents and documents of a private law nature (statements of claim, responses to statements of claim, petitions, complaints). The legal significance of civil procedural acts lies in the fact that they are the grounds for the onset of civil procedural consequences. The procedural status of the prosecutor’s opinion in a civil case should be regulated separately and considered as a procedural act of a public law nature, and not as evidence in the case. It is also advisable to establish a special procedural regime for notarized documents in the civil process, and establish a procedural presumption of their legality.