Classifications of legal communication in Russian civil law

Business communication is an essential condition for successful functioning of the civil turnover. In 2013, for assigning a legal effect to business communication, the legislator introduced a new norm - Article 165.1 of the Russian Federation Civil Code that covers legal communication. Despite the fact that this legislative innovation has been existing for almost seven years, despite the accumulated volume of judicial and arbitration practice of applying this rule, and despite the scientific research interest in this problem, the civil law science does not have a full-fledged theory of legal communication, including its concept, features, place in the system of legal facts, and other aspects. The purpose is to classify by various criteria the legal communication whose legal status is provisioned by the rule of Article 165.1 of the Russian Federation Civil Code, for solving a task meaningful for the Russian civil law development - i.e. the task of constructing the civil theory of legal communication. Methods: the basis of the research is the dialectical materialistic method of obtaining awareness of public phenomena and processes that conditions the study of legal communication in dynamics and in conjunction with other legal phenomena. Other universal methods including analysis, synthesis, induction and deduction, comparison, grouping are applied. Results: the author proposes innovative classifications of legal communication; with the classification criteria including the form, the conduct of the addressee of the message, the number of the addressees, the nature of legal implications, the source, and the sphere of application.