THE LEGAL NATURE OF ESTOPPEL AND THE NEW HORIZONS FOR ITS APPLICATION
The Russian legal system, in my opinion, is in dire need of an increase in the level of content, legal certainty and focus of law enforcement activities on such a category as the “spirit” of law. In fact, the Russian legislator, following these goals, first introduced the category of "good faith" into civil legislation, and later - the category of prohibition of contradictory behavior - "estoppel", which is aimed at increasing the level of stability of civil turnover. However, increasing legal certainty is necessary not only in civilian circulation.Despite the large amount of legal literature devoted to estoppel and its problems, the author of the article will offer theoretically grounded legal models for the possibility of expanding the use of estoppel in the Russian legal order, based on the principle of good faith, and a new definition of estoppel will be given, in both public and private-public branches of law. Attention will also be drawn to the relationship between «estoppels» and the doctrine of legitimate expectations (the principle of protecting trust).