The Category of "Natural Obligation" in Civil Law
This article discusses issues related to the inclusion in Chapter 21 of the Civil Code of a new article 308.3 «Natural obligation». This norm of the natural obligations should contain a definition of the grounds for its emergence and consolidation of the consequences of its implementation provisions. There is still a great variety of conceptual approaches to the understanding, interpretation and identification of the main features characterizing that has adverse effects on the protection of the rights of the parties under these commitments. The paper analyzes the different views, which some authors believe that the natural obligation is not an obligation and represent the actual ratio of non-legal nature, and some experts describe them as «gentlemen's agreement».