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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