The concept and purpose of liquidation of a legal entity in pre-revolutionary doctrine

The purpose of the study is to identify and analyse the approaches of pre-revolutionary doctrine to the concept of voluntary liquidation of a legal entity. The main task of the research was to study literary works, relevant jurisprudence and provisions of legislation with the formulation of the concept of voluntary liquidation of a legal entity and the definition of the purposes of such liquidation. The author compares the definitions of the concept of «liquidation of a legal entity» in modern scientific literature with the approach of pre-revolutionary doctrine. Based on the studied materials, the author proposes a definition of the liquidation of a legal entity, which allows to distinguish the liquidation of a legal entity from similar legal relations.