Acquiring the right to own real property

91 Acquisition of real property Abstract In the Czech Republic, acquisition of real property is generally regulated by the Civil Code, which was passed in 1964, in the time of socialism. In that period, private ownership of real property was not considered desirable. After 1989 the Czech Civil Code was amended many times to conform to conditions of the rising market environment. Despite numerous updating, the Civil Code is still an inconsistent codification of civil law. The goal of my diploma paper is to describe particular ways of real property acquisition with a view to judicial decisions of Czech courts. The thesis is composed of twelve chapters, each of them dealing with different aspects of acquisition of real property. Chapter One is introductory and defines basic terminology used in the thesis: proprietorship and real property. Chapter Two of this paper deals with the meaning of the terms immovables or real property mean in Czech legal order. The sphere of realties is set up in quite a complicated and incomplete way, because Czech law of realties is specified by its diversion from the principle of "superficies solo cedit". It practically means that the owner of a tract of land can be a person different from the proprietor of a building constructed on the tract of land. Czech law classifies real..