A gift - transformations over time

Dorota Ryčlová A gift - transformations over time Abstract This thesis is focused on a gift as an object of gift-giving and its purpose is to analyse this institute as completely as possible. Both from historical point of view, as well as from the perspective of actual legislation. Not even the perception of a gift by other sciences like psychology, anthropology, economy or diplomacy will be left aside. One of the introductory chapters is concerned with gift transformating in law from the Code of Hammurabi, over the Roman law and the Middle Ages up to the regulation of the Austro- Hungarian Empire, the First Czechoslovak Republic and both civil codes valid and effective in our territory in the second half of the twentieth century. Naturally, the largest extent is devoted to the conception of a gift in current legislation, especially in the Act No. 89/2012 coll. civil code (hereinafter referred to as the New Civil Code - "NCC"). Not only from the point of view of NCC Stat. §§ 2055-2078, which deals with different forms of the gift itself (and gift-giving and contract of donation respectively), but also from the point of view of other NCC provisions explicitly mentioning gift or gratuitously provided performances. For the needs of distinguishing between a gift stricto sensu and any other similar performances,..