- Protection of a forced heir and his disinheritance The protection of the forced heir has always been perceived as a clash of the will of the descendant and the principle of family cohesion. The objective of my thesis is to describe legal regulation of the forced heir and institutes related to this issue, i.e. their protection and disinheritance not only from the point of view of the current legal regulation according to the Civil Code No. 89/2012 Coll., but also from the point of view of their historical development. The diploma thesis is structured into four main chapters which are divided into subchapters. The purpose of the first chapter is to familiarize readers with the issue of inheritance law by defining its basic terms, revealing historical development from the time of Roman law through the ABGB General Civil Code to the modern legislation from 1950 and 1964 and taking account of their impact on the current legal system. The second chapter deals with the definition of the term of a forced heir, the determination of the size of the right to a forced share based on the age of the descendant, its determination with the possibility of inclusion and the principle for its payment. Furthermore, there are discussed the ways of protecting the rights of the forced heir. The third chapter deals with...

This thesis examines the consequences and implications of the premature deaths of royal heirs in seventeenth-century Britain. In just four generations between 1603 and 1700 the Stuart dynasty suffered the loss of over twenty-five legitimate offspring before their twenty-first year. Several of these deaths had significant political repercussions, threatening both the continuity of the royal line and consequently the security of the nation. The cultural memory of these lost heirs continued decades and even centuries later. My work seeks to establish the historical significance of their long-lasting appeal by assessing their princely representation in life and analysing its development after death. This study is firmly located within visual culture. However, definitions and classifications of the “visual” are necessarily broad. The emphasis is upon the consideration of seventeenth-century British art as part of a wider cultural process. The opening chapter addresses an apparently obvious, though somewhat neglected, issue - the critical importance of royal heirs. Through examination of the imagery and ceremonial attached to Stuart childbearing and christenings, it asserts the real symbolic significance of princely progeny. Chapter Two develops the study of youthful princely representation. It assesses the portrayal of Stuart heirs as they matured and seeks to identify the principal characteristics. Specifically, it is argued that, from a young age, the projection of Protestantism and martial aptitude was crucial to the formation of their personae. Chapter Three analyses how deceased Stuart heirs were commemorated in the months and years immediately after their deaths. It is contended that the enduring memory of these princes was the result, not of official commemoration, but of the large-scale public response to their deaths. The loss of an heir not only threatened the future of the dynasty but also the stability of the realm. The fourth chapter explores how, through visual and cultural propaganda, the surviving Stuarts attempted to re-group and to assuage social and political anxieties. Chapters Five and Six assess the long-term legacy of these princes in the decades and centuries after their deaths, as well as the political circumstances which gave rise to their enduring memory. These concluding chapters reveal the extent to which memories of deceased Stuart princes lingered, asserting that their representations were often employed for negotiation of the issues and anxieties of later ages. Throughout, my work seeks to establish the importance of these lost heirs and protectors of the Stuart Protestant line. I have endeavoured to retrieve the reputations of princes who came to represent potent symbols of both promise and loss.

- Protection of a forced heir and his disinheritance Forced heir is a close relative of testator, who is provided by law with the privilege to be involved in estate in the extent to which the law determines even against the will of the testator. The testator is allowed to exclude this right of forced heir only by dishereditance. The purpose of this thesis is to comprehensively describe issues of forced heir, their protection and dishereditance. In my thesis I highlight the changes arisen due to the new Civil Code but I also deal with the features of these institutes which were not affected by new concept and previous jurisprudence of higher courts can be used. The thesis is composed of five chapters. In the first chapter I shortly define the term forced heir and dishereditance. Because the regulation of forced heir and dishereditance is very traditional in European law, in the second chapter I provide the historical background and development of these institutes. I describe rights of close relatives of testator in ancient Rome, the Middle Ages, and also in Civil Codes which come into existence in last century, but I focus mostly on Common Civil Code of 1811. Current Czech legal regulation of forced heir and dishereditance is divided into third and fourth chapter because of clear arrangement. In the...

- Protection of forced heir and disinheritance The purpose of this thesis is to describe the current legislation concerning protection of forced heir and disinheritance and to highlight the recent and most important changes. The protection of forced heir shows intergenerational solidarity in law of succession opposed to another basic principle of law of succession - decedents autonomy of will. The institute of forced heir grants right to inherit a forced share to descendent's children in case the descendent forgets to include them in his disposition mortis causa. Disinheritance is the only legal option to break the protection of forced heir. The descendent might, only in compliance with the conditions set by the civil code, deprive the forced heir of his right to inherit the forced share completely or partially. The thesis is composed of five chapters. Chapter One introduces the basic terms, such as protection of forced heir, disinheritance and the institute of incapacity to inherit as one of the reasons for disinheritance. Chapter Two is subdivided into five parts and provides the historical background and development of the institutes of forced heir and disinheritance. Each part concentrates on different period, starting at legislation in ancient Rome and Common Civil Code through Czech Civil Code...

1 SUMMARY- FORCED HEIR AND DISINHERITANCE The subject of this thesis is the forced heir and disinheritance. The purpose of the thesis is to describe the current and future legal regulation while comparing them. Every testator is obliged to leave some part of the property to his or her forced heir. The forced heir is the testator's descendant and can be either minor or major. The only way for testator to avoid this obligation is to write a deed of disinheritance. There is a specified number of reasons of disinheritance; they are as follows: 1) the forced heir did not provide necessary assistance to the testator in disease, in old age or in a certain serious case 2) he did not show real interest in the testator 3) he was sentenced to imprisonment for at least one year 4) he led a dissolute life. The New Civil Code has replaced the third reason by following: the forced heir was sentenced for a criminal offense, which indicates his wicked nature, and adds one more reason of disinheritance, allowing to the testator to disinherit a wasteful forced heir. Both the current and future regulation of disinheritance are criticized for their generality and unclear definition of legal terms. The thesis is composed of 4 chapters. Chapter One is introductory and defines basic terminology used in the thesis: the forced heir...

1 Abstract This thesis deals with the conditions that need to be fulfilled in order to acquire inheritance. The aim of this thesis is to provide outlook into the matter of the law of succession and thoroughly describe and further analyse individual conditions of hereditary succession, which are legal requirements that needs to be fulfilled in order to acquire inheritance. In this thesis I systematically discuss the law of succession in its general meaning, canons of inheritance, legal sources of the law of succession and also legal institutes including several new ones which are govern in the new civil code. The main part of this thesis analyses individual conditions of hereditary succession. This thesis is composed of four chapters. Chapter one deals with the general meaning of the law of succession and in this chapter I provide introduction to the law of succession and define some fundamental legal terms. In chapter two I describe the canons of inheritance. This chapter is divided into three subchapters where I discuss in my opinion the three leading canons of inheritance. First subchapter deals with the principle of personal autonomy. Second one deals with the principle of universal succession. The third subchapter deals with the principle that the predecessor's possession is transferred by law to his...

1 Abstract At the beginning of my work, I explained and defined a term and function of inheritance (in Czech: dědictví); in this respect I would like to highlight a general understanding of the inheritance under the Civil Code of 1811. Under this Civil Code, the inheritance was understood as an exclusive right to take possession of whole probate estate (in Czech: pozůstalost) or its part determined in its relation to the whole part. Inheritance law was right in rem, which took effect against to everyone who wanted to usurp the probate estate (to disturb the heirs (in Czech: dědic) in exercising or execution of the particular right). A general interpretation and introduction to the inheritance rights under the current legislation is also described in the above-mentioned part of my work. Further, this part of my work contains a brief description of the principles on which the inheritance law is created. These principles were already defined by Emanuel Tilsch. In general, the inheritance law is a summary of all legal rules which govern the transfer of rights and obligations of the death (in Czech: zemřelý) to his/her legal successor (the inheritance law in the objective meaning). Usually, the inheritance law is connected with the death of an individual (when the death is proved by the death certificate or a...

Malgré le tabou de l'argent, la transmission des biens d'une personne répond à une indéniable nécessité familiale, économique et sociologique. La liberté testamentaire grandissante, à peine restreinte par la nécessité de protéger le noyau dur familial, rend surprenante une démarche pourtant bien présente en pratique : l’exhérédation. Celle-ci est la privation, directe ou indirecte et quelle qu’en soit la forme, de l’émolument successoral par la seule volonté du de cujus, sans pouvoir porter atteinte au titre d’héritier. La dichotomie entre titre et émolument permet de révéler la véritable relation successorale entre disposant et successible. A l’absolutisme quasi-absolu de la volonté du de cujus correspond l’effet quasi-plénipotentiaire du titre d’héritier. Si le de cujus peut presque librement disposer des biens composant ou qui auraient dû composer sa succession, l’héritier, bien que ne disposant d’aucun droit à l’héritage, a la faculté d’en perturber le règlement, sous couvert d’en assurer la police et la gestion. Le titre d’héritier, dénué de tout ou partie de l’émolument et distingué de la propriété des biens transmis, doit cependant tout au plus être vu comme un intérêt à agir, non comme un quelconque élément directeur des opérations de liquidation successorale / Despite the taboo of money, the descent of a person’s estate falls in line with an undeniable necessity in family, economic and sociological terms. The growing freedom relating to wills, which is hardly contained by the requirement to protect the family unit, makes disinheritance surprising, though such an approach does exist in practice. Disinheritance means direct or indirect deprivation – in whatever form - from a portion of inheritance, as decided by the testator only, without affecting the title as heir. The dichotomy between title and portion of inheritance reveals the actual inheritance-related link between the settler and the person entitled to inherit. The all but plenipotentiary effect of the title as heir is to be compared with the fundamentally absolutist desire of the testator. Though the testator can freely dispose of the property of which his/her estate is or should have been made up to all intents and purposes, the heir, though he/she may have no right to the heritage, can disturb the settlement of such estate, under the pretext of enforcing law and order and of administering such estate. The title as heir, deprived of any entitlement to all or any part of the portion of inheritance, which is to be differentiated from ownership of property conveyed, should however be perceived as an advantage to act, at the very most, not as a key aspect of operations relating to the settlement of a succession.

The law of succession is a branch of civil law that deals with devolution of property rights and duties of a decedent to his heirs. The new Civil Code that came into force in 2014 brought considerable changes in the field of the law of succession. Finally, the legal regulation pays proper attention to the law of succession and testate succession. After more than sixty years, there were restored legal institutions such as Clauses of lesser importance in a testament (condition, determination of time or a mandate), inheritance contract, privileged wills, legacy, vulgar substitution or fideicommissum. Not only because of these institutions can a testator finally organize freely and according to his own will his property situation mortis causa. The purpose of my diploma thesis is to analyze the testate succession according to the Czech Civil code that became effective on the 1st of January 2014. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first part is split into five chapters that deal with individual prerequisites of succession. The prerequisites of succession are as follows: the death of a testator, the existence of a decedent's estate, the capacity of an heir to inherit, the legal ground of succession and the acceptance/non-refusal of inheritance. Meeting all prerequisites of succession is crucial to...

v anglickém jazyce The aim of the thesis is to compare legal regulations of testament in the Czech and German legislation. A maiori ad minus methodical procedure is used in the thesis. After general characteristics of testament, the work is focused on the regulation of testament in Roman law, which significantly influenced the current legislation in the Czech and German law. Furthermore, the attention is paid to the regulation of testament on the Czech territory during 20th century, especially to the Czech Civil Code 40/1964. Subsequently, the thesis characterizes the current legal regulation of testament in the Czech Civil Code 89/2012 in detail. This analysis is mainly based on legislation, expert commentaries and literature, judgment and internet resources. After processing the Czech regulation of testament, the thesis changes its area of interest to the regulation of the German legislation of testament. At this chapter similar methodological procedure and legal resources were used. The comparison of testament in the Czech and German legal system showed following conclusion: although the legal regulation of testament is very similar, especially due to the historical roots of Czech and German law, several significant differences have been revealed, e. g. the concept of capacity to dispose, the...