This diploma thesis is focused on the analysis of the factums of murder and manslaughter pursuant to Section 140 and 141 of the Act No. 40/2009 Coll., Criminal Code, as amended, by studying historical and present-day legal acts, related documents, specialised literature from the field of law, medicine, psychology and anthropology, and of the jurisprudence of the Czech courts. The thesis is divided into five main chapters. The first chapter is focused on the historical development of the criminal regulation of intentional homicides since the foundation of the independent Czechoslovakia, starting from the reception of the 1852 Austrian Criminal Code which was applicable in the Austrian part of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, through the period socialist legislation represented by the Criminal Codes of 1950 and 1961, up to the adoption of the current Criminal Code in 2009. The second chapter addresses the problem of defining the term human life, explaining the moment and the moment of its end. This chapter also gives an overview of the protection of human life as it is guaranteed by the international agreements and treaties as well as by Czech constitutional order in the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms. The third chapter is the analysis of the criminal offence of murder pursuant to the...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:456226 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Johannes, Daniel |
| Contributors | Hořák, Jaromír, Pelc, Vladimír |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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