In the real manual educational material is presented on the generals of civil law, mastering of that has a fundamental value for the study of complete course of this fundamental educational discipline.Those, who first will appeal to this object, will find in an accessible form basic concept descriptions of civil law as fields of law, as sciences and as educational discipline, and those, who captured base already by civil legal knowledge, able to get deep information on some thorny problems of modern civil law, in particular about principle of honesty in a civil law, about the functions of civil law, about application of civil legislation by analogy.By a good help for the students obliged according to curricula to execute different family writing works, and also for those, whose activity related to the necessity of preparation of civil legal documents, the corresponding methodical recommendations placed in the last head of manual will become.For the students of legal institutions of higher learning and faculties, and also for all, who knowledge of civil law needs in their professional activity.