Right of superficies and its comparison to Austrian law

The right of superficies and its comparison to Austrian law Abstract This thesis describes the right of superficies that was adopted into the Czech legal system by the Act Nr. 89/2012 Sb., Civil Code and compares it with the Austrian right of superficies adopted by Act Nr. 86/1912. The objective of the thesis is to describe the key attributes of the right of superficies according to Czech law and to compare it with the corresponding provisions of the Austrian law. The thesis also deals with provisions of the Czech right of superficies that may be unclear or problematic to interpret and offers the possible way in which these provisions could be interpreted by drawing upon the example of the Austrian right of superficies. The thesis also contains the evaluation of the Czech right of superficies and some ideas for improvement of some its provisions. The right of superficies is described according to Czech and Austrian law in each chapter separately to aid the comprehensibility of the thesis and each chapter also contains the comparison of the concrete attributes of the Czech and Austrian right of superficies, respectively. Analytic, synthetic and comparative methodologies are used in this thesis. The introduction contains a brief historic development of the right of superficies and of the principle superficies..