V ANGLICKÉM JAZYCE The aim of my thesis was to carry out a detailed analysis of one of the most important institutions of the law of succession - testament. My secondary objective was to compare briefly the Czech legislation of testament with the legislation of Germany, which was one of the sources of inspiration for the Czech recodification works. Legislation of this institute after the adoption of the Civil Code significantly transformed and strengthened the testing freedom of the testator. Testament is one of the three forms of testamentary disposition that make it possible for the testator to decide how his property is going to be managed after his death. The first of the six chapters deals generally with law of succession, explains the key terms, concepts and important leading principles. Furthermore this chapter presents various prerequisites of inheritance and generally characterizes and defines the institute of testament. In the second chapter, I am aiming to outline the historical development of testament which roots can be tracked back to Roman law. In the following subchapters I am describing the legislation changes of this institution in our country with particular attention to the ABGB, another important source of inspiration, and also to the form of the institute in the period of...

Main goal of the diploma thesis was to present historical development of a testament in the area of Bohemia. Chapters of the thesis are put in chronological order and all the periods with an influence on the development are mentioned. At first an approach to testament in Roman law is presented, followed by feudal approach, an approach of the General Civil Code, approaches of totalitarian civil codes from 1950 and 1964 including changes which appeared after the Velvet Revolution and finally a new approach of the new civil code, Act No. 89/2012, taking effect on the January 1, 2014. To be able to understand fully the testament and all the related institutes it is necessary to begin with Roman law. It was the Roman law which laid the foundations for civil codes in Europe. This applies also to the testament in our area. Development in the following feudal period however was not positive when it comes to succession. Testament is therefore coming on the scene much later - mostly in form of code called city rights, which began a renaissance of the Roman law. The first complete civil code from 1811 was revolutionary when it comes to, besides other things, testament and succession. The General Civil Code was based on the Roman law traditions, it introduced extraordinary testamentary power for a testator,...

El presente trabajo de investigación, tiene como premisa principal el análisis de la libertad testamentaria en el Perú, es decir, los limites que se encuentran contemplados en nuestro ordenamiento jurídico así como su posible modificación o eliminación. Teniendo ello en consideración, dicho análisis será realizado en seis capítulos. El primer capítulo versara sobre la Libertad para Testar y contendrá el marco conceptual necesario para entender el tema de fondo. El segundo capítulo tratara sobre la legítima y la porción de libre disposición así como la finalidad, naturaleza y fundamentación. Por otro lado el tercer capítulo contendrá los límites que existen en nuestro ordenamiento jurídico. Por su parte, el cuarto capítulo contendrá jurisprudencia tanto nacional como internacional referente a la materia sucesoria materia del presente trabajo. En concordancia con ello, el quinto capítulo realizara un análisis a fondo de lo plasmado en los capítulos anteriores y contara además con la propuesta que se considere necesaria establecer como modificación de la normativa. Finalmente, en el sexto y último capítulo, se apreciaran las conclusiones y sugerencias que se puedan hacer sobre el tema. / The following thesis, has as its main purpose the analysis of the freedom of will in Peru, ergo, the limits that legally exist in our legal system and therefore its possible modification or elimination. Having that in consideration the analysis made in this thesis will be divided in six chapters. The first of these chapters will be about the freedom of will and the main concepts, required to understand the thesis. The second chapter will be about the concept of “legitima” and the concept of free disposition, its purpose, nature and foundation. On the other hand, the third chapter will be about the limits that exist in our legal system. Likewise, the fourth chapter will verse about both national and international jurisprudence. In accordance with all mention above, the fifth chapter will make a deep analysis of the previous chapters ant therefore will contain the proposal of a modification to our legal system. Lastly, the sixth chapter will contain the conclusions of the thesis. / Tesis

The thesis includes the analysis of the fideicommissum institute, which is one of the elements of the Czech Inheritance Law that were reintroduced into the new Czech Civil Code, which came into effect on the 1st of Janurary 2014. The theme is highly actual due to the new important possibilities of expressing the will of the testator for the occasion of his death. The thesis is focused on the analysis of the current enactment and describes the historic development of the fideicommissum institute The text contains four fundamental parts. The first presents the fideicommissum institute and its role and development in the Inheritance Law from the time of Roman Law. The author deals in this chapter with the intertemporal provisions and other coherent institutes, which go along with the fideicommissum institute. We talk about hereditas iacens and administration of the inheritance. In the next chapter, the author explains the current enactment in the Civil Code in detail and mentions the procedural enactment of the special Code on Specific Civil Proceedings as well. It consists of the foundation of the fideicommissum and the inheritance regime. The last chapter consists of comparison of the Czech and Slovak enactment. Taking into account that in the Slovac Republic is currently being prepared the new...

The main goal of this thesis is the complex description of the testament. The problems of this ancient and utmost important instrument of law, which is given to the testator to decide who will get his property after his death, is comprehensively described in the five chapters of this work. This thesis mainly focuses on the key element in the Czech civil law of current time, which is the new civil code that brings severe changes especially to the hereditary law. Major differences can be seen especially in comparison with the so called socialistic civil codes. The new civil law regulation surpasses the ideologically motivated and oversimplified provisions of these old laws. The most important changes are bound with the new basic principles, especially with the testator's will as a leading principle of the hereditary law. This principle is in fact mostly applied in the testament law; therefore the new civil code has great impact on the examined topic. The first chapter of this work is dedicated to the creation of testament as the instrument of law in the beginnings of civilization. It includes further development in several ancient states and the chapter is closed with the more detailed analysis of the base source of the modern civil law, the roman private law. The second chapter describes history and...

Testamentary capacity and disinheritance Abstract Disinheritance is an institute of law, which gives the testator opportunity to shorten, or not to leave the forced share to the forced heir for which he is entitled by law. The testator can act in this way only if grounds for disinheritance are met. Grounds for disinheritance are defined by law. However, the legislator does not explicitly state who has this legal capacity. We infer this fact logically. The purpose of diploma thesis is the institute of disinheritance, its overall analysis and demonstration on examples from case law. Also, to evaluate the institute of testamentary incapacity, or the incapacity to make disposition of property upon death, and the institute of disinheritance and put them into context. At the same time, to point out whether legal definition of the testamentary incapacity could have been defined in a different way in the law. The diploma thesis is systematically divided into four chapters, which are then divided into subchapters. The first chapter explains the basic terms which are used in connection with institute of disinheritance. It also demonstrates the most important of the legal principles related to it. The second chapter deals with incapacity to make disposition of property upon death. It is pointed out here that the...

THESIS ABSTRACT The subject of the research - the Early Modern burgher will - is viewed in the thesis from the standpoint of family structures, historical demography and sociotopography. The sample of 968 Jihlava wills from the period 1578-1624 were subjected to statistical analysis. Moreover, from a methodological perspective the nature of this research is similar to micro-historical and prosopographical approaches. The aforementioned theme was compared to conclusions of the literature concerning historical demography and family structures (especially English) as well as foreign sociological and anthropological studies. The results of this research were evaluated from the point of view of the annual number of wills as possible indicators of the chief trends in mortality, and possible connections were traced between the number of children named in the testaments and the inheritance system. Given the numerous marriage contracts concluded by testators, the study also looked into the "marriage market" and the duration of marriages. Other questions discussed in the thesis include, for example, family and household positions, disabled people, gender studies and intergenerational property transfer. Finally, in terms of the sociotopographical study, the houses of sorted testators were located within the framework...

This diploma thesis [in the master's course], drawn up at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague, deals with the principles of the law of inheritance in Bohemia prior to its codification in 1811. Although inheritance law is one of the oldest branches of law, and was very thoroughly developed in ancient Roman law, in our territory it actually started to develop some more only after the Hussite movement. That is due to the fact that in the Middle Ages, the prevailing concepts were the ruler's right to bona vacantia and family indivisible ownership ["rodinný nedíl" in Czech], both of which did not really make it possible to pass estate from the deceased to their heirs. Therefore the aim of the thesis is to examine and gain a deeper insight into the historical development and historical contexts of the law of inheritance in our territory, which had preceded its modern form that was first codified in Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch [the General Civil Code], which accepted the structure of the Inheritance Patent of Joseph II in 1811. Part One of the thesis, Introduction, briefly discusses the law of inheritance as a specific element of legal science, the principles of inheritance law, and inheritance conditions and titles. Part Two, Excursion into History - Inheritance in Roman Law,...

Text in English / This study indicates the strong link between the belief in the afterlife and the inception of testamentary dispositions in ancient Egypt. To understand law, and specifically succession law, the importance of religion must be understood. Religion was embedded in society. One of the most important principles of religion was maat, which formed the basis for law. The living and dead formed part of the same community. The belief in the afterlife implied an immortality, an eternal continuation of life. There was a moral relationship between the dead and living and the deceased was dependent on sustenance after death. There was an obligation for the family to sustain the deceased, but this piety diminished and a need arose to make arrangements for sustenance prior to death. This led to the inception of the testamentary disposition document. The purpose of succession law is to maintain and strengthen the socio-economic structure in society and it therefore fulfils a social function. At the heart is the nuclear family. In ancient Egypt two systems of succession law developed: customary intestate succession and testate succession (by way of testamentary disposition). Different types of documents were used in ancient Egypt to serve the purpose of a testamentary disposition, such as the pious foundation and the imyt-pr. Important concepts and elements of succession law from the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms are identified and discussed. These include fideicommissum, trusts, usufruct, habitatio, legacies, the importance to indicate ownership of property, etc. The testamentary disposition documents of ancient Egypt must be one of the earliest examples of testate succession law. The Egyptian testamentary disposition, with its concepts and elements of succession law, was established centuries before Rome and Roman law were established. The resemblance to our modern-day wills and testaments through our Roman testate succession law heritage is remarkable. / Classics and World Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (Ancient Near Eastern Studies)