About the moments of delivering and receiving of juridically meaningful messages in the civil law

The article is concerned with determining the moment of receiving a juridically meaningful message which implies the corresponding civil consequences occurrence for the addressee. It is justified that the legislator’s position of determining the moment of occurrence of the consequences of juridically meaningful messages is erroneous, since delivery differs from the message receipt. The moment of the message delivery may be applicable when constructing a fiction of the message receipt. The conclusion was made that if the addressee failed to appear for receiving the message, or was absent at the address at which the message was sent, then the moment of receiving the juridically meaningful message is viewed as the moment when the message was delivered to the addressee. The same principle should be used when determining the moment of receiving juridically meaningful electronic messages - as the moment of the message delivery to the zone of the addressee’s effective control, the moment after which he gets a real opportunity to read the message.