Legacy

Legacy Abstract This thesis examines the issues concerning a bequest, as a concept in inheritance law according to Czech legislation contained in Act No. 89/2012 Sb., the Civil Code. The reintroduction of the bequest to Czech inheritance law occurred after more than 50 years, so this concept is relatively unknown to the general public. A bequest that is governed by the principle of singular succession is a departure from the fundamental principle of inheritance law in the Czech Republic, namely universal succession. The restoration of this traditional concept of inheritance law brings many issues, both in theory and application, to which this thesis endeavours to find answers and point to weaknesses in the legal regulation. In this thesis, the historical interpretation in the parts dealing with the legal regulation contained in the legal regulations preceding the current Civil Code was used in particular, starting with the Roman-law legislation, through the medieval inheritance law to the general Civil Code, the government's draft of the Civil Code of 1937 and of the Civil Codes after the February 1948 Revolution. Due to the continuity of the current legal regulation from the General Civil Code and the Roman-law legislation, the thesis incorporates a comparative method where appropriate. In the de lege lata..