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The first-century Jewish sects of the Pharisees and Sadducees have been the subject of much scholarly attention, mainly because of their role in the New Testament. The works of Flavius Josephus provide critical information about these two groups, and it is sometimes supposed that the two portrayals should not be reconciled. This paper supports the argument that the two positions are in basic agreement.

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The law of succession has been changed a lot by enacting the new Civil Code in many ways but its main purpose is still to regulate the succession of inheritance from testator to heirs and related problems. This thesis makes an analysis of testate succession, which is one of the three possibilities of inheritance succession. The second is an intestate succession, which applies in the situation, when testator did not wrote last will. The last possibility is a contract between testator and heirs distributing inheritance between the latter. This contract has bigger legal force than last will and intestate succession is used, if there is none of them. The thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter One provides a brief introduction to history of the law of succession in our territory and presents the purpose of the thesis. Chapter Two deals with the questions common to the whole law of succession, it is divided in three subchapters, which talk about the main principles of the law of succession and legal rules regulating it and also about preconditions of succession, which include death of testator, subjective law of succession, existence of inheritance and legal ground to the succession. It also names possibility of heirs to reject inheritance. Chapter Three is concerned with the main theme of the thesis, which is...

The goal of this diploma thesis was to discuss the issues of testamentary succession, where not only the institute of the last will and testament will be discussed, but also some other legal regulations of the succession rights, that cannot be left out while discussing the issues of testamentary succession. The presented work is devided into six chapters, where the first chapter is started with the introduction word of the author, who introduces the work and puts the reader into the problem. After this a brief digression into the past follows, showing the issues of testamentary succession in the historical context and finally, this chapter is finished with the definition of the valid legal regulation of this time. The second chapter of this work focuses on the main principles of the testamentary succession. Individual principles are named individually and analysed in details, where some of the specific declarations of these rules are explicitly pointed out not only in this chapter, but in the following ones, too. The third chapter focuses in details on individual presumptions that must be individually fullfilled, so that the succession could be possible. These conditions are discussed in individual subchapters called: the death of testator, the existence of decedent's estate, the capacity to inherit, the...