PRAVO RETENCIJE KAO SREDSTVO OBEZBEĐENJA POTRAŽIVANJA: STRUKTURA, PRAVNA PRIRODA I UPOREDNOPRAVNA ANALIZA SA POSEBNIM OSVRTOM NA TEORIJU I PRAKSU R. SRBIJE

Tanja Varađanin; Nenad Stefanović; Maida Bećirović-Alić

doi:10.51738/kpolisa.2026.1r.tvnsmba

Authors

Tanja Varađanin Univerzitet Privredna akademija, Pravni fakultet za privredu i pravosuđe, Novi Sad, Srbija https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0070-3446
Nenad Stefanović Univerzitet Privredna akademija, Pravni fakultet za privredu i pravosuđe, Novi Sad, Srbija https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7899-9585
Maida Bećirović-Alić Univerzitet u Novom Pazaru, Novi Pazar, Srbija https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9738-6581

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51738/kpolisa.2026.1r.tvnsmba

Keywords:

right of retention, means of securing claims, self-protection of rights, comparative legal analysis

Abstract

The right of retention is a complex civil law institute that combines elements of real and obligation law, functioning at the same time as a real means of securing claims and a form of legally permissible self-protection of the creditor. Although it is often applied in everyday legal transactions, this institute in domestic legal doctrine is still assessed as insufficiently normatively rounded, primarily due to fragmentary legislation and limited judicial practice. Such a situation opens up numerous controversial issues regarding its legal nature, scope and limits of application, as we l as its relationship to related institutes. The aim of the paper is to systematically examine the concept of the right of retention, the conditions for its establishment, the way of exercising the right of retention, legal effects and the limits of the creditor's responsibility for damage caused to the retained thing, by applying a critical legal and normative analysis. In addition to the analysis of the domestic legal framework and court practice, the work also includes a comparative legal approach, through consideration of solutions developed in certain continental European legal systems, as we l as in international and model sources of contract law. In this way, common tendencies are pointed out, but also differences in the normative design and functional understanding of the right of retention. The goal of the work is to offer theoretically grounded and practically applicable interpretations that can contribute to a clearer understanding of this institute and to the improvement of legal certainty in its application, while relying on the experiences of comparative law as a corrective and inspiration for possible normative additions to domestic legislation.

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