Le Code civil français a exercé une influence considérable sur la codification civile congolaise. En 1895, par le biais de la colonisation, les Belges avaient importé au Congo le Code Napoléon qu’ils avaient eux-mêmes hérité des conquêtes de l’Empereur français. Le système juridique congolais qui jadis était basé sur le droit coutumier non écrit, fait de multiples coutumes et mœurs locales, s’était alors doté d’un Code rationnalisé calqué sur le modèle français. Après l’indépendance, le pouvoir politique congolais avait voulu remplacer le Code colonial qui était non seulement lacunaire mais surtout inadapté à la mentalité et aux traditions congolaises. Les travaux législatifs engagés notamment sur la partie relative aux droits des personnes et de la famille ont requis le recours à l’authenticité congolaise… En 1987, le législateur congolais a édicté la loi portant le Code de la famille. Ce Code qui pourtant prônait la rupture avec l’ancien Code colonial ne s’est-il pas finalement aligné sur ce même modèle contesté ? Quel choix le législateur congolais a-t-il fait entre tradition et modernité ? Quelles sont les principales nouveautés de ce Code ? Quelles critiques en a-t-on fait ? Aujourd’hui, 20 ans après son élaboration, le vieillissement du Code de la famille ne nécessite-il pas une recodification ? / The French Law has exercised significant influence on Congolese codifications; the most outstanding example is no doubt civil codifications. In reality, the Congolese legal system once based on the unwritten customary law made on multiple customs and community behaviours received through the Belgian colonization, with some adjustments, the Napoleonic Code that the Belgium has therefore received from Napoleonic conquests. This Code is also always applied in Belgium. But after the Congolese’s national independence, political power had wanted to replace the colonial Code which was the mentality and Congolese customs but still incomplete. Furthermore, the legislative work initiated on the part relating to the rights of persons and the family, which led to performing in 1987 of the Family Code, had advocated the use of the right traditional (authenticity). However, apart from the integration of a few customary institutions, this new Congolese Code is the modern fundamental (imperative of development). In fact, it renewed and even amplified the French law that associated others European rights and African postcolonial. But today, this Code has definitely aged; what might therefore be the best remedies to more valuable ? _______________________________________________________________________________________

The thesis studies the influence of the French Civil Code of 1804 on the civil codes of Quebec (the Civil Code of Lower Canada of 1866), Louisiana (the Civil Code of the State of Louisiana of 1825) and Francophone Switzerland (civil codes of cantons of Vaud of 1821, Valais of 1843-1855, Neuchâtel of 1853-1855, Fribourg of 1834-1850 as well as the French Civil Code as applied in two Swiss territories: the Canton of Geneva and Bernese Jura from 1804 until 1912). The study is focused not only on the reception of the positive law of one country by the positive law of another, but also on the reception of the legal tradition of one society by another. The study focuses on the modifications that the same law undergoes under different social and political conditions that exist within different nations. As it is impossible to examine all the provisions of the codes in question the research focuses only on the reception of the second book of the French Code “Of Property, and the Different Modifications of Ownership”. The study shows that, the reception of the French Civil Code took place in societies that were at different stages of their economic development, with varying political landscape, and with divergent cultural and religious values. In all jurisdictions the reception of the French Code was a creative, well thought-out enterprise that took into account local particularities and interests as well as historical sources of local law. Codifiers were not afraid of rejecting certain provisions of the French law if they found them unsuitable for their society. Nor were they afraid of keeping institutions that were abandoned in France itself if they found them pertinent to their countries.

Souscrivant à une conception large de la loi, les rédacteurs du Code civil n'enfermeraient pas le juge dans une exégèse étroite de la législation.La doctrine civiliste du XIXème siècle, partagée entre une mémoire de tradition et une mémoire de fondation, entendait interpréter le Code civil en respectant l'esprit de ses auteurs. / Endorsing a broad conception of law, the authors of the french Civil Code does not confine the judge in a close exegesis of the legislation.Civil doctrine of the XIXth century, shared between a memory of tradition and memory of foundation, intended to interpret the Civil Code respecting the spirit of its authors.

The aim of my thesis is to analyse the legislation regarding the residential lease and to compare the new Civil code regulation with the old Civil code regulation. Whereas some provisons of the old Civil code were completely replaced by the new legislation and some were practically left untouched. The thesis is composed of seven chapters and subchapters. The introductory part consists of the overview of the historical evolution of the residential lease and definition of fundamental terminology. The main part of the thesis concentrates on describing the residential lease and changes of the relating legislation. The last part concentrates on interesting court rulings. The first chapter presents the overview of the changes in the residential lease legislation, from the 19th century to the present day and is divided into three broad historical periods. The second chapter comprises the main definitions including definiton of the residential lease, definitiv of a flat, cooperative housing flat, sublease and other types of flats. The third chapter mentions various ways of establishing the residential lease and mainly concentrates on lease contract, which is the most common reason for establishing the residential lease. The fourth chapter summarizes the changes in the regulation of rights and obligations of...

The aim of my thesis was to describe the legislation regarding the lease of an apartment, as it is included in the Act No.89/2012 Coll., the civil code. The new civil code brought a lot of changes into the Czech legal system. The changes affected lease of an apartment as well. In my thesis I also adress the legislation of recent past, as it is vital to compare it to the new one. Thesis itself is divided into seven chapters and they are divided into subchapters. In each charter I will describe the new legislation with occasional remark to the recent one. In chapter one I describe the development of the legislation of the lease of an apartment, from the roman era, through middleages, modern codes of law, all the way to current state. The second chapter is focused on the definition of key legal institutes regarding lease of an apartment. It is crucial to define these institutes as they are vital for understanding of the whole legislation. In the third chapter I describe ways in which the lease of an apartment can come into existence. I mostly compare the old legislation with the new one. Chapter four is focused on rent and other payments related to the lease of an apartment. I describe how the rent is defined either in civil code or in other legal acts. In charter five I analyze the rights and...

Summary: I chose the topic of my master's thesis considering the recency of the subject according to the recodification of private law. Legal institute of trust has been in Czech lands since 19th century and nowadays it experiences it's controversial return. Although the recent legal form of trust is defended by authors of the new Civil Code, experts criticise it roughly and there are ongoing negotiations about abrogation of the legal institute or about its amendment. This thesis is composed of ten thematic chapters. After the introduction I explain the origin of the legal institute of trust in Roman law, specifically in the form of fideikomis and its development. As the legal form results from The Civil Code of Québec highly influenced by the legal institute of trust, I focus on the legal institute of trust in common-law countries in the third chapter. I also dedicate one chapter to The Civil Code of Québec, as it was the main source of inspiration for Czech legislators. For a period of absence of the legal regulation of the trust in Czech law, according to the Hague Convention it was possible to create foreign trusts on the territory of the Czech Republic. For that reason I discuss the legal regulation of trusts abroad in chapter five. Sixth and seventh chapter is dedicated to the regulation of trust in...

The diploma thesis examines the effective legislation governing the bank account (or "accout"), which undergone some changes due to the recodification of the Czech private law. In addition to the actual examination of the accout legislation, it aims to highlight the most important changes adopted in connection with entering of the new Czech Civil Code into force and draw attention to the legal provisions, in respect of which some differing opinions regarding their interpretation could be met. The methods of systematic analysis and comparation were used. The first chapter sets out the relevant legislation, a new systhematics of accounts used by the laws and also the transitional provisions. Furthermore, the definition of the term "bank account" and some related issues are contained. The following chapter deals with the general provisions on account, namely account agreement, disposition with the account, disposing of the funds in the account, account management, crediting of interest and finally the consequences of the death of the account holder and termination of contractual obligations from the account agreement. At the end of the chapter differences for the accout set up for more than one person are summarized. The next chapter deals with the Payment account and respective legislation contained...

The thesis is dealing with the notion of invalidity as a juridical institute of civil code. It is expounding the types of invalidity, their common features and differences between them. Particular reasons of invalidity are being examined in detail. The thesis is focused mainly on comparing the legal regulations of the current and the new Czech Civil code.

Principles of private law The reason of choosing "Principles of private law" for my thesis is that private law is built on untouchable values. For example, basic values like freedom and equality, which are represented by these principles. Many of them are indispensable in the relation of functionality of the whole system of law. Most of them have Roman law origin. The purpose of my thesis is to describe and summarize the main principles of private law that mostly appear in Czech law, especially in civil law. It also examines the influence of re-codification of private law on these principles and relationship between them. The thesis is composed of two parts. Part one, named general part, is introductory and defines different meanings of principles of law in Czech jurisprudence. It deals with historical perspective (Roman law connections to principles of law) and philosophical context (represented by concepts of legal positivism, theory of natural rights and sociological concept of law) of principles of law. It also describes the theory of principles of law by Ronald Dworkin. Part two, named specific part, focuses on principles of private law and contains the overview of them. It deals with legal regulations of these principles and their definitions according to judicial decisions. It also examines...

Law of lien in historical retrospection (especially in real estate matters) Abstract The diploma thesis deals with the historical development of the lien law. The introduction to the issue is devoted to the roman law concept of lien law, as a basic principle of its later formation in central Europe and also in the territory of Bohemia. The following text deals with the right of lien in central Europe from the earliest times to its modification influenced by the reception of roman law with the brief excursion to the reception of roman law. At this point, the reader can recognize a very similar, but somewhat independent, development of lien in central Europe and roman law at the beginning of its development and its stagnation in central Europe. It follows a more detailed analysis of the lien in the Czech lands until the beginning of the 19. th century when the modern civil code of the AGBG began to apply to the territory of most of the Habsburg monarchy (Cislaitania). Subsequently the author of the thesis focuses on the legal regulation of pledge law contained in the AGBG, and also by the draft civil code of 1937 to replace the AGBG. The legal regulation of lien was split into AGBG in several parts of the code, the 1937 proposal corrected this deficiency and made the whole regulation of lien easier to...