Inspirational Force of the General Austrian Civil Code in the Proposal of the Civil Code for the Czech Republic

The contribution indicates that the author is one of the key persons participating in the preparation of recodification of the Czech Civil Code. The author pays attention to the development of the proposal of the Code from the preliminaries and laying down the conceptual basis to passing the proposal by the government in May 2011. He points out that the main postulates adopted by the modern codification are ideas which were already expressed in the General Austrian Civil Code, such as respecting a person as a free individual and acceptance of the role of a judge as an authority which both applies and makes law