A discussion of issues pertaining to the interpretation of civil law regulations. The work is filled with examples of actual arbitrage court cases. The appendix contains the texts of various Plenary resolutions handed down by the Supreme Arbitrage Court of the Russian Federation. Chapter headings are: 1. Civil law regulations as a subject of interpretation 2. The concept and methods of arbitrage-court interpretation of civil law regulations 3. Special juridical interpretation of civil law regulations by arbitrage courts of the Russian Federation.