Legal regulation of testamentary succession in the Czech republic and Italy The transmission by inheritance is connected, as the law of succession in general, to death of a natural person. The testamentary succession in particular is conditioned by the existence of the last will created by the testator. The purpose of my thesis is to analyse and compare the legal regulation of testamentary succession in the Czech republic and Italy. In this thesis I'm trying to point out on one side on the similarity of those regulations and on other side on their differences. The thesis is divided into introduction, seven chapters and conclusion. The first chapter defines the testamentary succession as one of legal titles of inherit. The second chapter deals with the last will in general, in particular with the testamentary capacity of testator, content of the last will, forms of testament, substitution of successors and revocation of the last will. The third chapter describes contracts of succession in general as another kind of title of succession beside law and last will. It is subdivided into four parts. The first one is dedicated to the theory created by Italian jurisprudence of acts "inter vivos, post mortem", the second one donation mortis causa and the third part focuses on the Italian particular form...

This thesis deals with the legal institution of testament. The purpose of the thesis is to characterize and analyse individual aspects of legal regulation contained in the Act No. 89/2012 Coll., Civil Code, and to think about changes and new institutions, that became part of legal regulation. The thesis is divided into an introductory chapter, eight chapters and a conclusion. The introductory chapter covers introduction to the matter and describes the purpose of the thesis. The first chapter deals with characteristics of individual legal titles of succession, such as inheritance contract, testament and intestate succession. The second chapter provides general characteristics of testament as a legal act. The purpose of the third chapter is to describe the conditions of testamentary capacity and its limits. The fourth chapter describes individual forms of testament, such as testament made by means of a private instrument, testament made by means of a public instrument and also concessions in the making of a testament. The fifth chapter focuses on clauses of lesser importance in a testament, such as selection of executor of last will or conditions, determinations of time and mandates. In the sixth chapter we can find deliberation on institutions of substitution of heirship and succession by...

A notary in inheritance proceedings The aim of the study is to describe the activity of the notary as a court commissioner in inheritance proceedings and to compare Czech and Slovak legislation on this issue. In our legislation the inheritance proceeding is mandatory, as well as court commissariat, which means that when the court learns of the death of the person promptly starts the inheritance proceedings and instructs the court commissioner with the acts in proceedings. Court commissioner has de facto the control of the inheritance proceedings in his hands and with small exceptions he makes all acts in the proceeding. I chose this theme because I am interested in notary in general and court commissariat is one of the most important activities of the notary. This study is divided into three parts: 1.part- Notary in the inheritance proceedings in Czech Republic, 2. part- Notary in the inheritance proceedings in Slovak Republic, 3.part-final summary and the comparison. The parts are further divided into chapters and subchapters. I and II. part are structured similarly, but differ in scope. First part is more detailed and brings out also some problems, which are connected with this institution. In this part, I wrote also about some aspects of court commissariat in Austrian legislation to provide better...

L’encadrement juridique d’une personne décédée par le prisme de ses dernières volontés est une situation ordinaire offerte à tout testateur, afin d’anticiper la gestion des conséquences de son décès. Bien que reconnues par le discours juridique comme un indicateur précieux des traitements posthumes à opérer, les dernières volontés ont un caractère supplétif et détiennent, en conséquence, une assise relative dans le discours juridique. Si ce constat prévaut toujours à la lecture des règles formelles, il n’en demeure pas moins que nombre de dernières volontés trouvent à éclore au moment du décès du sujet du droit, sans précisément que ce dernier n’ait effectué une démarche positive. Consacrées depuis la loi Cavaillet dans le cadre spécifique du don d’organes, les présomptions de dernières volontés se développent insidieusement, sans qu’il ne soit toujours possible, y compris pour la personne de son vivant, de connaître leur contenu et leur amplitude. En opérant de la sorte, le discours juridique livre un message inaudible qui atténue la légitimité des dernières volontés. Pourtant, si le travail législatif entrepris est indéniablement perfectible, il a le mérite de laisser entrevoir le statut juridique auquel pourrait désormais prétendre la personne décédée. Ne faut-il pas y voir le signe que l’encadrement juridique des personnes décédées ne devrait pas pouvoir s’opérer autrement que par les dernières volontés ? / The legal framework of deceased people through their last wills is an ordinary situation offered to any testator, in order to anticipate the management of the consequences of their death. Though acknowledged by the legal writings as a valuable indicator of the posthumous process to follow, last will and testament being, by nature, ancillary; it only holds a relative base in the legal discourse. If this observation always prevails over the reading of formal rules, many of the last wishes come out and take effect nonetheless when people die without them having necessarily actively carried out any procedure. Codified since the Cavaillet bill in the specific framework of organ donation, the presumption of last will has developed insidiously, without it being necessarily possible, including for the person during his or her lifetime, to have knowledge neither of their substance nor of their extent. Thus, the implied message one can read between the lines of our current legislation reduces the legitimacy of the last will. However, if the legislative work which has been undertaken is undeniably perfectible, it has the merit of showing the legal status which deceased people could now access. Shouldn’t one take this as a sign that the legal framework of deceased people should only be possible through the respect their last wills?

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The Master Thesis World of the Burgesses of Rokycany in the Light of Their Testaments in 16th - 18th Century is based on the studies of two books of last wills and testaments stored in the State District Archives in Rokycany. The base of sources is further enlarged by the prescriptive literature of that time, i.e. books of good deaths, the book of the St. Mary's Fraternity and church registers. Attention was gradually paid to the transformation of the testamentary practice in Rokycany, to the representation of piety in the testaments and to the perception of death. Moreover the author of the work has aimed her attention to the evidence of the structure of families in the Early New Age, of the social environments of the testator and material culture of the burgesses' households seen from the testaments. A component part of the thesis is a picture annex.

"Thèse présentée à la Faculté des études supérieures en vue de l'obtention du grade de docteur en droit (LL.D.)". Cette thèse a été acceptée à l'unanimité et classée parmi les 10% des thèses de la discipline. / La liberté de tester au Québec a longtemps été qualifiée de « illimitée ». Dans les faits, une telle liberté signifiait que le de cujus pouvait ne rien laisser à son ou sa conjointe ni à ses enfants. Or, depuis l'introduction des dispositions législatives sur la prestation compensatoire et, plus particulièrement, de celles sur le patrimoine familial et sur la survie de l'obligation alimentaire, l'étendue de cette liberté n'est plus la même. Bien que les Québécois soient toujours libres de déterminer par testament à qui ils souhaitent léguer leurs biens, leur liberté est désormais limitée par ces dispositions législatives impératives qui permettent au conjoint survivant et à la famille immédiate du défunt de réclamer certaines sommes à la succession, et ce, quelles que soient les dernières volontés du de cujus. Ainsi, le patrimoine sur lequel s'exerce la liberté du testateur n'est plus forcément celui sur lequel le défunt pouvait exercer sa volonté pendant sa vie et son mariage. Il n'est donc plus possible de parler de liberté « illimitée» de tester des Québécois. Ce constat quant à l'émergence de restrictions à la liberté testamentaire dans le Code civil nous conduit à nous interroger sur les raisons et les fondements de cette transformation de la liberté de tester et, incidemment, sur la question plus générale de la production et de l'évolution du droit de la famille dans la société. Pour répondre à ce questionnement, cette thèse repose sur une approche socio-juridique selon laquelle il faut rechercher les fondements de l'évolution du droit à l'intérieur des représentations sociales valorisées dans une société et une époque données. Partant du postulat que ce sont les changements dans les représentations sociales qui contribuent à expliquer le passage d'une rationalité sociale à une rationalité juridique, cette thèse dégage par quels acteurs, suivant quelles logiques et dans quels buts ces restrictions à la liberté de tester ont été introduites dans le droit québécois. Une telle façon d'aborder l'évolution du droit à partir de l'évolution des représentations sociales contribue ainsi à « éclairer» l'idée communément véhiculée selon laquelle le droit reflète l'évolution des moeurs. Grâce à une étude des représentations sociales inscrites et retracées dans le discours des acteurs sociaux - mémoires déposés à l'Assemblée nationale, Journal des débats, commissions parlementaires, jurisprudence, doctrine, textes de loi - cette thèse montre que les changements qui ont conduit à restreindre la liberté de tester au Québec ne dépendent pas que des perceptions relatives à la famille et au patrimoine, tel qu'on le rapporte généralement. L'introduction de restrictions à la liberté de tester dans le Code civil semble plutôt résulter d'un compromis entre l'évolution des représentations sociales sur les rapports familiaux et l'évolution des représentations sociales sur le droit, plus précisément quant aux fonctions du droit dans la société et aux conditions de sa cohérence. L'analyse de cette évolution permet enfin d'observer que si le droit des successions a longtemps été une « composante » du droit des biens, il constitue désormais, surtout, une « composante» du droit de la famille. / Formerly the freedom of wiIling in Quebec was considered to be "unlimited", which meant that its scope was such that the deceased could refrain from bequeathing any property at aIl to his or her spouse or children. Following the introduction of legal measures on compensatory allowance and, more particularly, provisions concerning the family patrimony and the survival of the obligation of support, the scope of this freedom is no longer as alI-inclusive as it once was. Although Quebeckers remain free to determine via their last wiIls and testaments to whom they wish to bequeath their property, henceforth their margin of freedom is limited by the preceding legislative changes which entitle the surviving spouse and immediate family of the deceased to claim to certain amounts from the succession, whatever the last will of the deceased may have been. As such, the patrimony upon which the testator now exercises freedom has ceased necessarily to be that which the deceased had control over during his or her life and marriage. It is thus no longer possible to refer to Quebeckers' "unlimited freedom" of wiIling. The emergence of limitations in testamentary freedom in the Civil Code invites us to question the reasons and foundations for this shift in the freedom of willing and, incidentaIly, the more general issue of the reform and evolution offamily law in society. To address these issues, this thesis is founded upon a socio-Iegal approach according to which it is essential to seek out the basis of the evolution of law from within the social representations valued in a society at a given time in its history. Beginning from the postulate that it is the changes in social representations that help to explain the transition from a social rationality to a legal rationality, this thesis illustrates by what actors, foIlowing which lines of logic and to what end these limitations in the freedom of wiIling were introduced into Quebec law. Such an approach to the evolution of the law on the basis of social representations thereby helps "to enlighten" the commonly expressed idea whereby law is a mirror image of mores. Based upon an analysis of social representations recorded and retrieved in the discourse of different social actors, including briefs tabled before the National Assembly and proceedings in the Journal of Debates, parliamentary committees, as weIl as decided cases, doctrine and statutory texts, this thesis seeks to demonstrate how the changes which led to the restriction in testamentary freedom in Quebec extend far beyond perceptions evoking family and patrimony as is generaIly claimed. The introduction of limitations in the freedom of willing in the Civil Code seems rather to result from a compromise between the evolution in social representations regarding family relationships and the evolution in social representations regarding law, more specifically with regard to the functions of law in society and the conditions underlying the law's systemic coherence. Lastly the analysis of this evolution makes it possible to observe that while the law governing successions was for a long time a "component" of property law, henceforth it has specifically gravitated to being a "component" of family law.

La liberté de tester au Québec a longtemps été qualifiée de « illimitée ». Dans les faits, une telle liberté signifiait que le de cujus pouvait ne rien laisser à son ou sa conjointe ni à ses enfants. Or, depuis l'introduction des dispositions législatives sur la prestation compensatoire et, plus particulièrement, de celles sur le patrimoine familial et sur la survie de l'obligation alimentaire, l'étendue de cette liberté n'est plus la même. Bien que les Québécois soient toujours libres de déterminer par testament à qui ils souhaitent léguer leurs biens, leur liberté est désormais limitée par ces dispositions législatives impératives qui permettent au conjoint survivant et à la famille immédiate du défunt de réclamer certaines sommes à la succession, et ce, quelles que soient les dernières volontés du de cujus. Ainsi, le patrimoine sur lequel s'exerce la liberté du testateur n'est plus forcément celui sur lequel le défunt pouvait exercer sa volonté pendant sa vie et son mariage. Il n'est donc plus possible de parler de liberté « illimitée» de tester des Québécois. Ce constat quant à l'émergence de restrictions à la liberté testamentaire dans le Code civil nous conduit à nous interroger sur les raisons et les fondements de cette transformation de la liberté de tester et, incidemment, sur la question plus générale de la production et de l'évolution du droit de la famille dans la société. Pour répondre à ce questionnement, cette thèse repose sur une approche socio-juridique selon laquelle il faut rechercher les fondements de l'évolution du droit à l'intérieur des représentations sociales valorisées dans une société et une époque données. Partant du postulat que ce sont les changements dans les représentations sociales qui contribuent à expliquer le passage d'une rationalité sociale à une rationalité juridique, cette thèse dégage par quels acteurs, suivant quelles logiques et dans quels buts ces restrictions à la liberté de tester ont été introduites dans le droit québécois. Une telle façon d'aborder l'évolution du droit à partir de l'évolution des représentations sociales contribue ainsi à « éclairer» l'idée communément véhiculée selon laquelle le droit reflète l'évolution des moeurs. Grâce à une étude des représentations sociales inscrites et retracées dans le discours des acteurs sociaux - mémoires déposés à l'Assemblée nationale, Journal des débats, commissions parlementaires, jurisprudence, doctrine, textes de loi - cette thèse montre que les changements qui ont conduit à restreindre la liberté de tester au Québec ne dépendent pas que des perceptions relatives à la famille et au patrimoine, tel qu'on le rapporte généralement. L'introduction de restrictions à la liberté de tester dans le Code civil semble plutôt résulter d'un compromis entre l'évolution des représentations sociales sur les rapports familiaux et l'évolution des représentations sociales sur le droit, plus précisément quant aux fonctions du droit dans la société et aux conditions de sa cohérence. L'analyse de cette évolution permet enfin d'observer que si le droit des successions a longtemps été une « composante » du droit des biens, il constitue désormais, surtout, une « composante» du droit de la famille. / Formerly the freedom of wiIling in Quebec was considered to be "unlimited", which meant that its scope was such that the deceased could refrain from bequeathing any property at aIl to his or her spouse or children. Following the introduction of legal measures on compensatory allowance and, more particularly, provisions concerning the family patrimony and the survival of the obligation of support, the scope of this freedom is no longer as alI-inclusive as it once was. Although Quebeckers remain free to determine via their last wiIls and testaments to whom they wish to bequeath their property, henceforth their margin of freedom is limited by the preceding legislative changes which entitle the surviving spouse and immediate family of the deceased to claim to certain amounts from the succession, whatever the last will of the deceased may have been. As such, the patrimony upon which the testator now exercises freedom has ceased necessarily to be that which the deceased had control over during his or her life and marriage. It is thus no longer possible to refer to Quebeckers' "unlimited freedom" of wiIling. The emergence of limitations in testamentary freedom in the Civil Code invites us to question the reasons and foundations for this shift in the freedom of willing and, incidentaIly, the more general issue of the reform and evolution offamily law in society. To address these issues, this thesis is founded upon a socio-Iegal approach according to which it is essential to seek out the basis of the evolution of law from within the social representations valued in a society at a given time in its history. Beginning from the postulate that it is the changes in social representations that help to explain the transition from a social rationality to a legal rationality, this thesis illustrates by what actors, foIlowing which lines of logic and to what end these limitations in the freedom of wiIling were introduced into Quebec law. Such an approach to the evolution of the law on the basis of social representations thereby helps "to enlighten" the commonly expressed idea whereby law is a mirror image of mores. Based upon an analysis of social representations recorded and retrieved in the discourse of different social actors, including briefs tabled before the National Assembly and proceedings in the Journal of Debates, parliamentary committees, as weIl as decided cases, doctrine and statutory texts, this thesis seeks to demonstrate how the changes which led to the restriction in testamentary freedom in Quebec extend far beyond perceptions evoking family and patrimony as is generaIly claimed. The introduction of limitations in the freedom of willing in the Civil Code seems rather to result from a compromise between the evolution in social representations regarding family relationships and the evolution in social representations regarding law, more specifically with regard to the functions of law in society and the conditions underlying the law's systemic coherence. Lastly the analysis of this evolution makes it possible to observe that while the law governing successions was for a long time a "component" of property law, henceforth it has specifically gravitated to being a "component" of family law. / "Thèse présentée à la Faculté des études supérieures en vue de l'obtention du grade de docteur en droit (LL.D.)". Cette thèse a été acceptée à l'unanimité et classée parmi les 10% des thèses de la discipline.

The subject of this diploma thesis is inheritance, inheritance procedure and probate proceedings. It reflects the current (new) legal regulations founded by the Law No. 89/2012 Coll., Civil Code, as amended. The aim of the thesis is to analyse and evaluate the current legal regulations of inheritance in such a manner to provide sufficient amount of information about the basic terminology in this area of the law even to a layman. This applies to both substantive and procedural law. The thesis comprises of three parts. The first part focuses on the history of inheritance procedure with special emphasis in institutions introduced into current legal regulations. The second part contains an analysis of substantive law regulations of inheritance procedure. Several controversial points put to practice by the new regulations can also be found there. The third and last part deals with the procedural regulations and the probate proceedings.

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