The article attempts to analyze the market for the lease of land plots in state and municipal ownership. The author considers the features of a land plot as a subject of a lease agreement, its characteristics as an individually defined thing and the possibility of using land plots as a financial asset. Among the characteristics of a land plot as the subject of a lease agreement, its purpose, associated with the type of permitted use, is considered. The author provides an analysis of law enforcement practice aimed at changing the type of permitted use of a land plot provided for temporary use by individuals or legal entities, and explores the need to amend the land lease agreement. The author suggested that the ambiguity in the interpretation of the procedure for changing the type of permitted use, and, as a result, making changes to the lease agreement, can be eliminated by including, by agreement of the parties, in the agreement a condition on the impossibility of changing the type of permitted use during the term of the agreement. The dispositiveness of civil law makes it possible to include this condition in the contract and avoid both the abuse of the right and the possibility of concluding “speculative transactions” to replace the party to the obligation in order to circumvent competitive procedures.

In this study, the authors analyze judicial practice in the field of protecting the business reputation of internal affairs bodies, the possibility of interaction between the media and internal affairs bodies in order to form the image of law enforcement agencies. The article is a brief analysis of the essential characteristics of “reputation” in historical retrospective and its etymological meaning. The definition of the concept of “reputation” proposed by the authors involves its multidimensional analysis from the standpoint of various branches of law. The study contains a description of the criterion of “business” reputation and its relationship with the activities of the internal affairs bodies. The authors considered business reputation as an activity-based active process aimed at achieving certain goals, identified areas for using the definition of the concept of “business reputation” in the activities of internal affairs bodies.The article contains excerpts from judicial practice illustrating the ways of discrediting employees of the internal affairs bodies that have damaged their business reputation. The authors suggested that the balance of interests of law enforcement agencies, society as a whole and individual citizens can be found. As one of the directions for the formation of a positive image of employees of the internal affairs bodies, the interaction of the media and the internal affairs bodies is named.