Testament - a comparative study of the italian and czech legal regulations

In this final thesis "Testament - a comparative study of the italian and czech legal regulations" the author analyses the legal regulations of this institute in the Czech Republic and Italy. The testament is a last will that is a reversible legal transaction, in which a natural person yields over at least a quotiance of the inheritance, eventually also a legacy. This final thesis consists of seven chapters excluding the opening and the conclusion. In the first chapter I focus on the Roman Law regulations of this institute, where we find the elementals for contemporary continental legal regulations. I also devote to the history of the testament on the territory of today's Czech Republic and Italy. Next chapter deals with the elementary terms of the inheritance law and puts the last will into the context with this area of law. I also turn to the testator character, his capacity or non-capacity to make the last will and to the action of oversights while making the last will. In the third chapter there are described the essentials of the testament, the assumptions for for the succession, assignation of the heritors and the institute of trust. I also refer to the possible inheritance non-capacity and the patronage of the nonnegligible heritors. Next chapter deals with formal essentials of the testament. The last..