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Volodymyr Tsikalo
Specic characteristics of corporate rights under Ukrainian legislation
Some scholars do not consider non-property corporate rights to be
personal non-property rights of an individual. Thus, according to I. Sarakun
allocation of personal non-property rights to a separate group is debatable,
as the powers of the participants constitute the content of the right to
participate in the management of the company, and it can be exercised
through an authorized representative. Therefore, it is not inseparable from
a member of the company (Sarakun, 2007).
As for the non-property nature of corporate rights, it should be noted
that the term “non-property” is used as the antithesis of “property”
rights, i.e., non-property rights are rights that have no property content
(Kravchenko, 2010). As for the non-property component of corporate
rights, they are guided by property corporate rights. At the same time, its
intangible component can hardly be described as a personal intangible
right in its sustainable sense (Jornokuy, 2011).
One of the types of non-property right, which is inextricably linked to its
subject, and can be transferred from one person to another not only under
the contract, but also on the basis of a unilateral transaction (e.g., will), is
the right to participate in the company. According to V. Kravchuk in case
of death of the participant the object of inheritance can include: 1) a share
in the authorized capital; 2) the right to participate in the company, if it is
expressly provided in the charter (Article 1219 of the Civil Code of Ukraine).
Thus, there may be cases where only the share is inherited, and cases
when the share is inherited alongside with the right to participate in the
company. As a result of inheritance, corporate rights may arise in full (both
in terms of share and in terms of participation) or incomplete (only in
respect of shares in the share capital) (Kravchuk, 2009).
O. Hnativ believes that the right to participate in governance is an
intangible right. It may not be alienated or transferred to another person
separately from other rights or in isolation from a share security, but it does
not belong to the personal non-property rights of an individual under Book
II of the Civil Code of Ukraine (Hnativ, 2016).
Another position is held by V. Vasilieva, who believes that corporate
law should be considered as a complex aggregate object of civil rights,
consisting of independent subjective rights, which constitute the content
of corporate law. These include non-property rights and property rights. It
is the existence of property rights that allows the introduction of corporate
law into civil circulation as an independent object (Nekit, 2021). Therefore,
corporate rights are part of the estate and can be acquired as a result of
inheritance (Vasilieva, 2007).
Some researchers of personal non-property rights of legal entities express
the opinion about the possibility of transferring these rights (personal non-
property) to successors, in particular, in the process of termination of the