The article is devoted to the general principles of the execution of civil rights upon the occurrence, performance, change and termination of a contractual obligation. Such general patterns are the principles, the application of which is a legal fact that causes the dynamics of a contractual obligation (emergence, implementation, change, suspension, termination), as well as the protection and protection of civil law and interest). It has been proven that there is a group of principles that are characteristic of all stages of the dynamics of a contractual obligation, which are the principles of legal equality, justice, good faith and reasonableness, dispositiveness. It was analyzed that the principle of freedom of contract and free expression of will are determining principles for the execution of civil rights by participants in contractual obligations, because such principles are designed to ensure the validity of the deed, which will subsequently undergo its dynamic development. The basis of these principles is a voluntary action, without any coercion, to enter or not to enter into contractual relations (that is, emergence as a stage of dynamics), as well as to choose a counterparty, its conditions, methods of provision, special conditions for the exercise of rights and performance of duties, freedom of change and termination of the contract. Therefore, this principle will be relevant for almost all stages of dynamics, only with a different magnitude of its role. It has been proven that the principles of the fulfillment of obligations, namely the principles of proper and real fulfillment of obligations, complement the above-mentioned principles of freedom of contract and free expression of will in importance for the realization of civil rights in contractual obligations. The principles of the exercise of subjective civil rights establish fundamental requirements for the conduct of participants, in particular in contractual obligations. It is proposed to highlight such principles of the exercise of civil rights by participants in contractual obligations as the principles of consistency, unimpededness and full satisfaction of interest. The principle of protection of civil rights is manifested in the abnormal dynamics of the contractual obligation. It has been proven that a certain set of basic principles for the exercise of civil rights is inherent to each stage of the dynamics of a contractual obligation.