The Place of Hiring Contract in the System of Civil Contracts
The paper analyzes the place of hiring contracts in the system of civil law. The relevance of this problem is justified by the current situation in the system of civil law when the hiring contract can be concluded between economic entities and physical persons, thereby giving them identical legal status. We consider this situation as contradicting to the economic nature of relations between consumers. The aim of this research is to identify the correct place of hiring contracts in the system of civil law and, thus, to spot certain measures to be applied in order to ensure fulfillment of the liabilities of contractors, as well as to protect their rights. Attention is also paid to the specific rules of legal regulation of hiring contracts. The hiring contract is bilateral in its nature (since two sides take part in it), commutative (each side offers something to its partner), concensual (the contract is concluded when both sides reached their agreements), and public (the lessor cannot deny concluding a hiring contract if they possess the property to be rented). These properties of hiring contracts determine their consumer nature. The results obtained during the analysis allow making the following conclusions: the hiring contract should be exclusively consumer-oriented, being considered only as the contract between consumers and not providing any possibility to use a hiring property for entrepreneurial activities; the distinctive feature of the hiring contract is the impossibility of its prolongation, which ensures protection of the rights of consumers when the lessor aims to impose an extra period of rent.