METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF SECURITY RESEARCH IN CIVIL LAW

Introduction: the article is devoted to the peculiarities of the methodology in the study of security issues in civil law. The security of the individual, society and the state is ensured by the norms of both public and private branches of law and civil law is no exception here. In this regard, the study of the civil law mechanism for ensuring security is of particular importance for the domestic civil law. However, such research should have a methodological basis that reflects the specifics of the subject. Purpose: to develop a methodological basis for the study of security through the prism of a civil law mechanism for its provision, including the formulation of problems for the main directions of future research. Methods: a set of general scientific methods of cognition (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, systems approach, method of scientific modeling, etc.), combined with private scientific and private law methods (formal legal, comparative legal, intersectoral) were applied. Results: security can be investigated within the framework of civil law means of ensuring it in the following areas: 1) security as an intangible benefit and an object of civil law protection; 2) security as an element of the object of legal relations arising from the conclusion of civil law contracts; 3) property security and civil legal means of ensuring it. Conclusions: the study made it possible to identify the main directions of security research in the science of civil law due to the peculiarities of the methodology. In the course of the research, the authors posed a number of scientific problems, the solution of which is possible in the course of further civil studies.