1 This Master's degree thesis entitled "The main principles of liability for damage in civil law" is concerned with the general matters and principles of the legal regulation of liability for damage. The purpose of this study is to apprise the readers of the main principles of liability for damage, to explain the existing legal regulation of this institute and to point out to the extensive judicial practice in this legal area, which supplements the effective legal regulation in a considerable extent. The thesis focuses on the legal regulation of liability for damage contained in Act No. 40/1964 Coll., the Civil Code, and doesn't deal with the different legal regulation of liability for damage, which is included in the Commercial Code or in ...