Evolution of inheritance title deeds

- Evolution of inheritance titles My thesis contains the description and analysis of inheritance titles through the history - from Roman law to legal situation de lege ferenda. The institution of inheritance is an indispensable part of the system of law. The inheritance contributes to keeping property values of a deceased person for his successors, usually for further generations. The inheritance law contributes also to the certainty and continuity in legal relations between entities of civil law relations. The topic of this thesis are inheritance titles, which represent legal grounds of inheritance. The thesis pays the greatest deal of attention to the regulation de lege lata and regulation de lege ferenda and their comparation. Description of the provisions of the civil code is accompanied by important judgments of the courts. Historical excursion starts in the Roman law which is commonly accepted as the basis of the current legal regulations and follows by the brief review of the middle-ages law. The thesis then deals with the Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (ABGB) adopted in 1811. This civil code became the first modern regulation in the Czech territory. ABGB was valid until the beginning of the twentieth century's 50s, after the communist revolution, when new "socialistic" regulation took..