The Need for Singling out General Provisions in the Legal Regulation of Damages in Tort

Modern Russian legislation should strive for maximum specificity of normative generalizations, allowing with sufficient certainty to carry out legal qualification of diverse but homogeneous social relations. The article defines the significance of normative generalizations in relation to Chapter 59 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. The purpose of the study is to analyze the mutual influence of the two main approaches to the formulation of normative rules (abstract and casuistic), proving their relevance at present. According to the results of the study, the author concludes that the formation of general provisions in the legal regulation of obligations from the infliction of harm are an important component of codification work, including an indicator of a high degree of development of the legislation of this sphere of legal relations.