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Civil legislation regulates property relations and personal non-property relations between individuals and legal entities.

Principles of Civil Legislation

(1) Civil legislation is based on the recognition of the equality of participants in the relations it regulates, the protection of intimate, private and family life, the recognition of the inviolability of property, freedom of contract, the protection of good faith, the protection of consumer rights, the recognition of the inadmissibility of anyone's interference in private affairs, the need for the unimpeded exercise of civil rights, ensuring the restoration of violated individual rights, their protection by competent jurisdictional bodies.

(2) Civil rights may be limited by organic law only on the grounds provided for by the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova.

Relations regulated by civil legislation

(1) Civil legislation determines the legal status of participants in civil turnover, the grounds for the emergence and procedure for exercising property rights, regulates contractual and other obligations, as well as other property and personal non-property relations between subjects of civil legal relations.

(2) Family, housing, labor relations, relations on the use of natural resources and environmental protection that meet the characteristics specified in part (1) are regulated by the Civil Code of the Republic of Moldova and other laws.

(3) Relations related to the implementation and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms and other intangible assets are regulated by this code and other laws in light of the provisions and principles established by international treaties in the field of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

(4) The subjects of civil legal relations are individuals and legal entities, both those with professional status and those without it.

Civil legislation

(1) Civil legislation consists of the Civil Code, the Civil Procedure Code, other laws, Government ordinances and by-laws that regulate the relations specified above and that must comply with the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova.

(2) By-laws shall be applied to regulate civil legal relations only if they are issued on the basis of the law and do not contradict it.

(3) Civil legislation shall be interpreted and applied in accordance with the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova, the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and other treaties to which the Republic of Moldova is a party.

(4) When interpreting and applying civil legislation, the need to ensure uniform application of legal provisions, good faith, and legal certainty shall be taken into account.

Civil Procedure Code of the Republic of Moldova

The legislation on civil proceedings of the Republic of Moldova regulates public relations related to civil procedural relations arising in the administration of justice by courts of general jurisdiction in the consideration of cases of claim proceedings and other cases referred to their competence by this code and other laws.


The main Legal basis of the Republic of Moldova

  • Civil Code of the Republic of Moldova* No. 1107/2002
  • Civil Procedure Code of the Republic of Moldova* No. 225/2003