Immaterial harm in civil law

This thesis deals with the legal regulation of immaterial harm (non-pecuniary loss) in civil law with a necessary extension to other spheres of private and public law. Immaterial harm reflects the personal loss caused by the infringement of human personal rights or other natural rights protected by law. There is no possibility of objective pecuniary evaluation in comparison to the material harm (damage) and so there is no potentiality to recover damages easily. The main goal of the thesis is to compose crucial issues regarding immaterial harm. The thesis uses mainly analysis of primary and secondary sources such as legal regulation, professional literature and judicial decisions. The immaterial harm is linked to the two main areas of law: 1) tort law and 2) the protection of person and personal rights. So the thesis is divided into two parts for that important reason. The first part of the thesis deals with the common regulation of the immaterial loss. Legal provisions encompassing immaterial harm are regulated in the first chapter. Next chapter explains tort law: a wide area including immaterial harm. The third chapter focuses on concept of civil tort; there is an important issue in connection with recodification. The fourth chapter deals with liability in general: this term was replaced by..