Petrofanova K. Civil law characteristics of electronic money.

This dissertation is a completed scientific work that contains new theoretically sound results, which, while combined together, solve the scientific problem of providing a civil law description of electronic money and legal relations that arise in connection with the use of said form of money. The manuscript analyzes the theoretical developments that help to determine the essence of money in the economic and legal context. Scientific positions on the civil nature of cash and non-cash monetary funds are considered. The history of development of the legislation regulating legal relations connected with use of electronic money in the European Union, the United States of America and Ukraine is investigated; definition of electronic money, the basic requirements to issuers, the control and supervision over their activity is discussed. Particular attention is paid to clarifying the legal regime of electronic money, which involves determining their place among different forms of monetary funds. The characteristic of obligatory-legal relations concerning electronic money is given.