THE NOTION AND LEGAL NATURE OF MORAL OBLIGATIONS
The article provides for the overview of the theoretical approaches to the nature of natural obligations as well as arguments for the view that a natural obligation has a civil nature and covers the issue of a character of a defense that a natural obligation is deprived of. The author goes into the debating question of forced exercise of a creditor’s right at large and gives special attention to impossibility for a debtor to claim back anything that was performed in fulfillment of his debt.