Contract of sale and selected related issues of contract law according to Act No. 141/1950 Coll., Civil code, in comparison with recent legislation

Contract of sale and selected related issues of contract law according to Act No. 141/1950 Coll., Civil code, in comparison with recent legislation Abstract The thesis deals with the contract of sale and other selected legal institutes of contract law according to the Act No. 141/1950 Coll., the Civil Code (hereinafter "OZ 1950") while comparing them with the recent legislation contained in the Act No. 89/2012 Coll., the Civil Code. The contract of sale is generally one of the most important means of realizing the autonomy of the will of the subject bearing rights and obligations, moreover it is one of the most frequent ways of transferring ownership. The thesis offers a critical view of the legal regulation of legal institutes in both mentioned codes, when at the same time, both positive and negative aspects of the given legal regulations are pointed out. On this count, in relation to the recent legal regulation, some considerations de lege ferenda are stated, and furthermore some inaccuracies in the prevailing current evaluation of the OZ 1950 are also noted. The legal institutes that are mentioned in this thesis are e.g., legal act, its requisites and defects, the concept of contract and obligation with their theoretical definition, the principles of contract law or certain issues of tort lawin..