The presented thesis contains the description and comparison of the current legislation of acquisition of heritage, especially titles of acquisition of heritage, with the rules valid in the territory of the Czech Republic in its history and outlines its further development leading to the effectiveness of the New Civil Code (Law No. 89/2012 Coll.). It focuses on the essential points of our history that constantly influence the development of the law of succession (Roman law, Allgemeines Bürgeliches Gesetzbuch of 1811). It also closer devotes the issue of the inheritance eligibility, the option to accept or to refuse the inheritance, issue of disinheritance, that are basic prerequisite to the acquisition of heritage of any reason. In the conn...