Abstract: The subject of this research is the formation and development of the formal utterance of civil legal policy in Russia over the period of 1649-1825, which manifested and undergone changes during the prolonged process of legislative regulation of social relations alongside the attempts of systematization of legislation in accordance with the sectoral principle. Legislative acts that regulated the order of changes in formal aspect of the civil legislation were used as the main sources of the research. The goal of the work consists in the comprehensive historical-legal examination of regularities of the establishment and development of legislator’s perception regarding the forms of civil legislation systematization. The author’s principal conclusions concern the civil legal policy in Russia during the period of 1649-1925, which has been establishing and progressing within the process of legislative regulation of the arising social relation through adoption of the new legislative acts that claim to fill the gaps and eliminate contradictions in the acting code of laws, and creation of projects of codes of acting laws and new  regulation. Thus, in the course of systematization of the Russian civil legislation, the officials along with the legal experts have formed the perception about the compilation of laws, codes of civil laws and new civil regulation. Russian legislator attempted to ensure the equal and fair trial across the entire nation, therefore, traditionally attracted the government authorities towards the resolution of the problem of systematization of legislation, who applied the acting laws and realized justice.