Legal regulation of an animal in the Civil Code

[1] Legal regulation of an animal in the Civil Code Abstract The content of the thesis consists in the legal regulation of the animal in the Civil Code. The aim of the thesis is to provide a comprehensive overview and analysis of all provisions in which the animal is explicitly designated by law as an element of legal relationship, and assess whether and to what extent the legislator respects the special nature of the animal and the principle of dereification, to which the Civil Code has subscribed. The private law regulation is also to a limited extent placed in opposition to the public law, which is often used to demonstrate the imperfection of the regulation in the Civil Code. The thesis is divided into an introduction, four chapters and a conclusion. The first chapter deals with the concept of an animal, especially in the context of the aforementioned dereification. In addition, the possibilities of applying the provisions on things to living animals are addressed here as well. The second chapter covers the animal in the context of property rights. It focuses mainly on specific ways of acquiring ownership of the animal and their mutual internal contradictions. Furthermore, it embraces the influence of the animal on legal relations between neighbours, where it highlights beekeeping law, which is often..