Testament

in English Death as a natural legal fact relates to every natural person. Law of succession, which is a component of general private law, affects life of every individual. The reason of this is the fact that the property relations that do not terminate by a death of an individual or do not succeed by a special succession are to be solved by a usage of this branch of law regulations. The purpose of my work is to put Heritage law into a system of law, shortly describe all conditions for acquiring inheritance, one of which is a succession title. I concentrate on a problematic of Testament, which is one of the succession titles, by comparing relevant regulations of a Civil code no 40/1964 Sb. (hereinafter referred to as: "CC") and a new Civil code (hereinafter referred to as: "NCC") no 89/2012 Sb., coming into effect on 1st January 2014. The thesis is composed of seven chapters. Chapter one contains a short introduction of the topic while Chapter two and three contain a short insight into the problematic of the Law of succession in general and the basic terminology like Inheritance (Succession) and Heritage. Chapter four focuses on Conditions of acquiring inheritance and it is subdivided into four parts, each of which describing one of such conditions - death of a person, existence of heritage,..