Residential co-ownership in the light of the amendment to the Civil Code effective from 1st July 2020

1 Residential co-ownership in the light of the amendment to the Civil Code effective from 1st July 2020 Abstract In this thesis I deal with the institute of residential co-ownership and the changes brought by Act No. 163/2020 Coll., amending Act No. 89/2012 Coll., the Civil Code, as amended, and other related acts. This amendment to the Civil Code fundamentally interferes with the legal regulation of residential co-ownership, ie also with the provisions concerning an association of unit owners with which I deal mainly in this thesis. For its clarity, the thesis is divided into parts in which I try to systematically present the changes that the above-mentioned amendment to the Civil Code has brought. An important part of the thesis is also a comparison of the changes with the regulation effective before 1st July 2020. In the introduction, I first present the subject of research in general and then in a short historical excursion I approach the development of residential ownership in our territory. In my opinion, the main point is the view into the last century, where co-ownership respectively residential ownership changed the most. In connection with the historical development, it is important to mention the legal principle of superficies solo cedit. This principle, known since the second century AD, has an..