The article is devoted to a comprehensive analysis of the storage contract in Russian civil law, taking into account contemporary scientific research and law enforcement practices. It examines the legal nature of the contract, the specific features of special types of storage, current issues of qualification, the protection of the rights of warehouse receipt owners, as well as the distribution of legal risk. The aim of the study was to analyze the legal nature of the storage contract, identify problems related to its application, and formulate proposals for improving legal regulation. The analysis of modern research demonstrates two key vectors: an in-depth study of special types of storage, their tools – warehouse receipts, and the systematization of general provisions of the storage contract and its interaction with consumer legislation. The synthesis of these approaches allows for the identification of systemic problems within the storage institution, which lie both in the classical qualification of contracts and risk distribution, as well as in its adaptation to the digital turnover. Methods of comparative legal, historical-legal, and systemic analysis, study of judicial practice, and doctrinal sources were utilized. Key issues related to the determination of the subject of storage, consideration, the responsibility of the custodian, the qualification of the warehousing contract, and the handling of warehouse receipts have been identified. Based on the conducted analysis, specific proposals for improving legislation and law enforcement practices in the context of economic digitalization have been formulated. The storage contract remains a complex and dynamically evolving institution of civil law. The analysis allows for the formulation of proposals concerning the qualification of the contract, warehouse receipts, risk distribution, protection of participants' rights, regulation of digitalization, and the expansion of the circle of subjects that can act as a commercial warehouse. A limitation of the study is the lack of uniform judicial practice on several issues, which requires further monitoring of law enforcement. It has been determined that the further development of the storage institution requires an interdisciplinary approach that unites the norms of civil, entrepreneurial, consumer, and information law.
Mark Maksimovich Vasilyev (Fri,) studied this question.