G.O. Abolonin,

Candidate of Legal Scienes, Consultant on the Legal Support over Investments 

and Court Protection of Rights and Legal Interests of Foreing Investors

The article is devoted to the comparative analysis of theoretical views on civil litigation in the United States and Russia. Civil process is understood here as a set of general principles of dealing with civil disputes in courts and various procedural means used by lawyers in order to file a suit or, respectively, protect from brought civil suit. «Proceeding» means in legal theory of the United States a formalized contest of parties undertaking to the competent authority of the jurisdiction, in most cases to the court, in order to ensure the implementation of the rights provided by law. The core of the subject of civil procedural law that distinguishes it from the branches of the material law is the fact that the procedural law is looking for the best options for representation by lawyers in civil cases to protect the interests of their clients in the courts of various instances. In Russia the civil procedural law plays the role of branch of science. Civil process is universal compulsory form of protection of subjective rights arising not only and not so much from civil relationships, but much more of family, labor, social, housing, land, environmental and even public relationships. 

Keywords: civil procedure; a branch of science; comparative law.