Ownership right to water bodies: comparative legal research

Krytsula Alexey Alekseevich

This article examines the issues of ownership of water bodies, as well as the norms of civil and water legislation on this issue, their correlation. Attention is paid to the very concept of "water bodies" as a specific object of property turnover. The importance and civil-legal significance of differentiating the concepts of "water" and "water body" is explained. The presumption of federal ownership of water bodies is investigated. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the implementation of the ownership of the pond and the watered quarry, as water bodies that can be privately owned and are objects of property turnover. The problems of ownership of water bodies raised in scientific work are compared with similar legal structures of foreign legal orders.

Keywords:property right, water legal relations, water body, pond, watered quarry, water code, water use. This article is devoted to ownership on bodies of water according to Russian Civil Law and Russian Water Resources Law.