Subsidiary liability in the legislation of the RF in the pre-reform period

When studying any legal institution, they often resort to the historical method. It is also advisable to begin the study of such an institution as subsidiary liability with an analysis of previous experience, despite the fact that the formation of the institution under study in its current understanding has occurred in the last 15-16 years, during which there have been significant changes in its legislative regulation. The article analyzes the evolution of Russian legislation on the subsidiary period until 2017, discusses the practice of applying the relevant norms and problems that do not arise. The authors come to the conclusion that in the period preceding the global reform of 2017, the institution of subsidiary liability, in the context of its legal regulation, was characterized by such problems as a late emerging right to compensation for harm caused as a result of the guilty actions of a person controlling the debtor, which led to further legal improvements of the named legal institution.