Texte remanié de: Diss. Ph. D.--Dutch--Utrecht university, 1985.

The diploma thesis, Selected Problems of Maintenance with Particular Focus on Good Morals, deals with legal matters of maintenance mainly in connection to the aspect of good morals (boni mores) which represents the principal of equity and is the moral extension of legal provisions under the law of the Czech Republic. The purpose of the thesis is to identify the most frequent issues that are being dealt with and describe their legal solution in accordance with the legislation valid and effective till the end of 2013 and under the new legislation after the recodification of the Czech civil law, effective from the 1st of January 2014. The doctrine of boni mores and legal provisions regarding maintenance have both met some changes in terms of interpretation and application since the recodification. Maintenance and good morals are researched together, they are researched one in connection to the other one, in this diploma thesis because the previous legislation established a special linkage between them which resulted in a considerable amount of case law that needs to be revisited. The thesis is divided into 5 chapters which are further divided into subchapters. The first chapter is focused on the theoretical basis of the doctrine of boni mores, the role it plays in the Czech legal system, the meaning...

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This thesis deals with the question of evil as privatio boni according to the teachings of Augustine of Hippo and the conception of evil in the work of Carl Gustav Jung who denied this Augustine's teachings. In the thesis I analyze attitudes that adopt both thinkers to categories of good and evil in relation to impacts of their conceptions on understanding of God, self-understanding of man, of his life, death and salvation, further of the relation of God and man and the human moral responsibility before God and society. Augustine maintains that evil is an absence of good, but Jung thinks that the reality is put together from the balance of good and evil. Their attitudes I scarify with the aid of the secondary literature and the explanation of that biblical places that both thinkers refer to.

La révolution de 1789 fit émerger, face à une société jusqu’alors conçue comme une entité, un nouvel individu désireux d’affirmer sa singularité. À la morale chrétienne qui se réfère à Dieu, les philosophes du XVIIIe siècle, et plus particulièrement Kant, ont voulu substituer une morale où l’homme serait, selon le mot de Protagoras, mesure de toutes choses. Cependant, l’individu devait encore se conformer à ce que Kant nomme l’impératif catégorique, et supporter une adhésion forcée à des valeurs communes. La morale a été progressivement ressentie comme autoritaire et illégitime ; certains ont voulu ne voir en elle que les valeurs d’une société bourgeoise. Les années 1960 donnèrent donc naissance à une morale individuelle, qui a pris le nom d’éthique. Ces bouleversements n’ont pas été sans répercussions profondes sur le droit des personnes et de la famille. Aussi les bonnes moeurs ont-elles disparu du droit de la famille pour laisser la place en droit des personnes à la dignité humaine : à la conception d’un droit-modèle succéda celle d’un droit-principe. La notion de dignité ne fut consacrée dans le Code civil français que fort tardivement, ce qui explique l’absence de consensus concernant sa définition. On peut regretter qu’une telle fragilité ait pu entraîner la dilution de ce principe, voire sa transformation en un droit subjectif ; elle n’oppose alors qu’une faible résistance à l’avènement de l’autonomie personnelle, construite en porte-à-faux par la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme sur l’article 8 et le consentement de l’individu. Dans cette sphère européenne, l’individu a gagné le droit d’opérer des choix sur son corps, quelque dangereux qu’ils soient, et peut-être même la liberté de renoncer au bénéfice des droits énoncés dans la Convention. Il apparaît donc essentiel de redéfinir la dignité, rempart contre la réification de l’être humain, autour des concepts de liberté et d’égalité. Dès lors, d’une logique néfaste de concurrence entre la dignité et l’autonomie, pourra renaître un véritable rapport de complémentarité et de hiérarchie / After the French revolution, in front of a holist society hitherto, the willingness of a new individual to affirm his singularity did emerge. Whilst the Christian morality referred to God, the XVIIIth century philosophers, especially Kant, wanted to substitute a morality where, according to the words of Protagoras, man would be the measure of anythings. The individual, however, still had to conform to what Kant names the categorical imperative, and to support for shared values. The morality became gradually felt as authoritative and illegitimate, the middle-class values. The 60’s let rise an individual morality, which took the name of ethics. These upheavals were not without major effects on law of persons and family law. Boni mores disappeared therefore from family law to give way to human dignity in law of persons: to the conception of a model law that of a principle law did succeed. The concept of dignity was only tardily devoted in the Civil code: that could explain the absence of consensus concerning its definition. One can consider it regrettable that such a fragility could involve the dilution of this principle, and even its transformation into a subjective right; it does not oppose whereas a low resistance to the advent of personal autonomy, awkwardly built by the European Court of the human rights on the article 8 and the individual consent. The individual gained the right to operate choices on his body, however dangerous they are, and perhaps even freedom to give up the benefit of rights stated in the Convention. It thus appears essential to redefine dignity, a rampart against the reification of human being,around the concepts of freedom and equality. Consequently, from a harmful logic of competition between dignity and autonomy, a true relation of complementarity and hierarchy between these two concepts will be able to reappear.

Suretyships given in favour of banks are being challenged in the courts on the basis of equitable doctrines of unconscionable conduct, undue influence, or statutory provisions dealing with unfair conduct or unfair contract terms. This thesis is an enquiry into a bank's duties of disclosure or advice to an intending surety. Such an investigation also necessitates a study of the relationship between banker and customer, as the surety is quite often a customer of the bank as well, and, as a surety's obligation to the bank is an accessory obligation, the obligation is dependent on a valid principal obligation between the bank and the principal debtor - the customer. The face of modern banking has, however, changed dramatically and most major banks have become multi-functional. As a result, the banker-customer relationship may often be seen as a fiduciary relationship. A major problem brought about my multi-functioning banks is that of conflicts of interest between the bank and its customer. Furthermore, the banker-customer relationship is providing much more scope for lender liability than in the past. Various factors are currently having an impact on the law of contract, and this is expected to affect the legal policy makers in their assessments of whether a duty of disclosure of material facts exits or not. A surety has long been a favoured debtor in the eyes of the law, and the courts have developed a plethora of technical principles on which a surety can be relieved of his obligation. The escape routes of the surety, especially if he is a consumer as well, on the new grounds of public policy, unconscionability, good faith or unreasonableness, are growing. The results of these trends is the expected demise of suretyship as an acceptable, cheap form of debt security in the banking sector. / Jurisprudence / LL.D.

The Forum was the center of Roman life. It witnessed a barrage of building, destruction and reuse from the seventh century BCE onwards. By around 80 BCE, patrons chose to renovate the Senate House and Comitium with a fresh paving of tufa blocks. Masons leveled many ruined altars and memorials beneath the flooring. Yet paving also provided a means of saving some of Rome’s past. They isolated the Lapis Niger with black blocks, to keep the city’s sinking history in their present. Paving therefore became a technology of memory for recording past events and people. Yet how effective was the Lapis Niger as a memorial? Many modern scholars have romanced the site’s cultural continuity. However, in fifty years and after two Lapis Nigers, the Comitium had borne a disparity of monuments and functions. Rome’s historians could not agree on what lay beneath. Verrius Flaccus reports that the Lapis Niger ‘according to others’ might mark the site of Romulus’s apotheosis, his burial, the burial of his foster father Faustulus, or even his soldier, Hostius Hostilius (50.177). Nevertheless, modern archaeologists have found no tombs. Instead of trying to comprehend these legends, most scholars use them selectively to isolate a dictator, deity or date. We must instead understand why so many views of the Lapis Niger emerged in antiquity. Otherwise, like ancient antiquarians, we will re- identify sites without end. Recreating how these material and mental landscapes interacted and spawned new pasts tells us more about the Lapis Niger than any new attribution. / text

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:30:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Eduardo Jose da Fonseca Costa.pdf: 1076274 bytes, checksum: 311258a291d703faf4ae6c9a12956e77 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-11-05 / As far as the matter of granting injunctive relief is concerned there is a dead right provided in state-approved legal texts that is in disagreement with the living right of forensic practice. When ruling on the granting of urgent injunctions, the plain wording in the legislative text may give rise to an interpretation whereby the fumus boni iuris and the periculum in mora are requirements independent of each other. As a result, for the traditional scholastic doctrine which usually conforms to chiefly analytic and hermeneutic dogmatic models the absence of either one or the other of these requirements suffices to have the motion for preliminary injunction denied [= rigid and mechanistic model]. However, an empirical study of the status of the legal practice shows that justices usually take together the fumus boni iuris and the periculum in mora and that those requirements seem to have a mutually complementary relationship. In other words: a dogmatic-pragmatic model can through empiric, descriptive and inductive investigative procedures prove that in daily court practice the absence or the lean presence of one of the requirements may from time to time be offset by the exaggerated presence of the other [= fluid and adaptive model]. This is why in daily court practice it is possible to find orders granting preliminary injunctions grounded (α) merely on a near certainty of the allegation of a material right to which the plaintiff claims to be entitled, with the justice leaving out of consideration the presence of the periculum in mora [= plain extreme evidence injunction], or (β) only on the imminent danger of extreme irreparable harm, with the justice leaving out of consideration the presence of the fumus boni iuris [= plain extreme urgency injunction]. In this sense, the several types of preliminary injunction are but points of tension tugging at the strands of a rope stretched between the fumus boni iuris and the periculum in mora. The more the tension moves toward the fumus boni iuris the closer it gets to the granting of extreme evidence injunction; the more the tension moves toward the periculum in mora the closer it gets to the granting of extreme urgency injunction. Halfway between these extremes lies an infinitesimal set of possibilities all interlinked by means of a vital connection. Thus, within this infinitude eight key-types of preliminary injunction stand out: a) plain extreme evidence injunction; b) plain extreme urgency injunction; c) extreme evidence and non-extreme urgency injunction; d) extreme urgency and non-extreme evidence injunction; e) extreme evidence and extreme urgency injunction; f) non-extreme evidence and non-extreme urgency injunction; g) presumed extreme plain evidence injunction; h) presumed extreme plain urgency injunction. Therefore, it is naïve to maintain that the granting of preliminary injunctions is either a discretionary (Cândido Rangel Dinamarco), or an associative (Betina Rizzato Lara) act. As a matter of fact, it does have something of a discretionary and something of an associative quality, since it is an act of complex conditionality, an outcome of a justice s appraisal of the fundamental tension between the fumus boni iuris and the periculum in mora such as they appear in a given real case / Em matéria de concessão de medidas liminares, existe um direito morto nos textos de lei positivados pelo Estado que não coincide com o direito vivo da prática forense. No momento da concessão das medidas de urgência, o campo meramente textual dos diplomas legislativos dá a entender que o fumus boni iuris e o periculum in mora funcionam como pressupostos autônomos entre si. Portanto, para a doutrina escolástica tradicional que, em geral, segue modelos dogmáticos prevalentemente analíticos e hermenêuticos a falta de um desses pressupostos é suficiente para o provimento liminar deixar de ser concedido [= modelo rígido e mecanicista]. Todavia, um estudo empírico do plano situacional da prática judiciária revela que o fumus boni iuris e o periculum in mora costumam ser analisados em conjunto pelos juízes e que eles parecem assumir uma relação de complementação mútua . Em outros termos: um modelo dogmático-pragmático é capaz de comprovar, através de procedimentos investigativos empíricos, descritivos e indutivos, que, na experiência quotidiana dos Tribunais, a ausência ou a presença minguada de um dos pressupostos pode ser eventualmente compensada pela presença exagerada do outro [= modelo fluido e adaptativo]. Daí a razão pela qual, no dia-a-dia forense, é possível deparar-se com a concessão de liminares calcadas (α) tão apenas na quase-certeza da pretensão de direito material alegada pelo autor, sem que a presença do periculum in mora tenha sido levada em consideração pelo juiz [= tutela de evidência extremada pura], ou (β) somente no perigo iminente de um dano irreparável extremo, sem que a presença do fumus boni iuris tenha sido examinada [= tutela de urgência extremada pura]. Nesse sentido, os diferentes tipos de liminar nada mais são do que pontos de tensão ao longo de uma corda esticada entre o fumus boni iuris e o periculum in mora. Quanto mais essa tensão se dirige para o fumus boni iuris, mais se está perto da outorga de uma tutela de evidência extremada; quanto mais a tensão se dirige para o periculum in mora, mais se está perto da concessão de uma tutela de urgência extremada. Em meio às duas extremidades, existe um conjunto infinitesimal de possibilidades, todas interligadas por uma conexão vital. Assim, dentro dessa infinitude, podem destacar-se oito tipos-chave de providência liminar: a) tutela de evidência extremada pura; b) tutela de urgência extremada pura; c) tutela de evidência extremada e urgência não-extremada; d) tutela de urgência extremada e evidência não-extremada; e) tutela de evidência e urgência extremadas; f) tutela de evidência e urgência não-extremadas; g) tutela de evidência pura de extremidade presumida; h) tutela de urgência pura de extremidade presumida. Logo, é simplista sustentar que a concessão de liminares é ato discricionário (Cândido Rangel Dinamarco), ou vinculativo (Betina Rizzato Lara). Na verdade, existe nela um quid de discricionariedade e um outro de vinculatividade, visto que se trata de um ato de condicionalidade complexa, fruto da valoração que o juiz faz da tensão fundamental havida entre o fumus boni iuris e o periculum in mora, tal como configurados num determinado caso concreto

Suretyships given in favour of banks are being challenged in the courts on the basis of equitable doctrines of unconscionable conduct, undue influence, or statutory provisions dealing with unfair conduct or unfair contract terms. This thesis is an enquiry into a bank's duties of disclosure or advice to an intending surety. Such an investigation also necessitates a study of the relationship between banker and customer, as the surety is quite often a customer of the bank as well, and, as a surety's obligation to the bank is an accessory obligation, the obligation is dependent on a valid principal obligation between the bank and the principal debtor - the customer. The face of modern banking has, however, changed dramatically and most major banks have become multi-functional. As a result, the banker-customer relationship may often be seen as a fiduciary relationship. A major problem brought about my multi-functioning banks is that of conflicts of interest between the bank and its customer. Furthermore, the banker-customer relationship is providing much more scope for lender liability than in the past. Various factors are currently having an impact on the law of contract, and this is expected to affect the legal policy makers in their assessments of whether a duty of disclosure of material facts exits or not. A surety has long been a favoured debtor in the eyes of the law, and the courts have developed a plethora of technical principles on which a surety can be relieved of his obligation. The escape routes of the surety, especially if he is a consumer as well, on the new grounds of public policy, unconscionability, good faith or unreasonableness, are growing. The results of these trends is the expected demise of suretyship as an acceptable, cheap form of debt security in the banking sector. / Jurisprudence / LL.D.

Se situant dans l’histoire immédiate, la littérature africaine contemporaine participe de la dénonciation de la violence des régimes postcoloniaux et des guerres civiles. Ce sont des nouvelles formes d’écriture caractérisées à la fois par l’urgence et par l’intention de s’éloigner des formes européennes, donnant lieu à une expression universelle et à la revendication du roman comme œuvre d’art. Cette contribution se propose, à partir de neufs romans francophones, anglophones et hispanophones publiés entre 1990 et 2000, d’explorer et d’analyser la réinsertion de la femme africaine subsaharienne dans les archives officielles. À travers des témoignages fictionnels inspirés des faits réels et des histoires relevant de la sphère privée, ces auteur(e)s créent un nouvel imaginaire sur la femme africaine évoluant entre violence et résistance. Par une approche interdisciplinaire, nous tenterons d’identifier les images de la femme dans ces romans, ainsi que les moyens stylistiques et langagiers dans le processus de la réinterprétation des archives et de la réinsertion de la femme africaine subsaharienne dans l’Histoire. / In relation to the immediate history, contemporary African literature contributes to the denunciation of the violence of postcolonial regimes and civil wars. These new forms of writing are characterized both by the urgency and by the intention to move away from European forms, giving rise to a universalizing writing and the claim of the novel as a work of art. This contribution is proposed, from nine Francophone, Anglophone and Hispanophone novels published between 1990 and 2000, to explore and analyse the reintegration of Sub-Saharan African women in the official archives. Through fictional testimonies inspired by real facts and stories of the private sphere, these authors create a new imagination about African women evolving between violence and resistance. Through an interdisciplinary approach, we will try to identify the images of the woman in these novels, as well as the stylistic and linguistic means in the process of the reinterpretation of the archives and the reintegration of the African Sub-Saharan woman in history. / En relación a la historia inmediata, la literatura africana contemporánea contribuye a la denuncia de la violencia de los regímenes poscoloniales y de las guerras civiles. Estas nuevas formas de escritura se caracterizan tanto por la urgencia de escribir como por la intención de alejarse de las formas de expresión europeas, dando lugar a una escritura universal y a la reivindicación de la novela como obra de arte. Esta contribución se propone de explorar y analizar la reintegración de las mujeres africanas subsaharianas a los archivos oficiales, a partir de nueve novelas de expresión francesa, inglesa y española, publicadas entre 1990 y 2000. A través de testimonios ficticios inspirados por hechos reales e historias de la vida privada, estos autores y autoras crean una nueva imagen de las mujeres africanas desenvolviéndose entre la violencia y la resistencia. A través de un enfoque interdisciplinario, intentaremos identificar las imágenes de la mujer en estas novelas, así como el estilo y el lenguaje en el proceso de reinterpretación de los archivos y la reintegración de la mujer africana subsahariana en la historia.