The legal institution of settlement

Thesis Abstract Institution of law - Settlement The aim of my thesis is to specify and to characterize a settlement as institution of law, firstly, in a general point of view and, further, in specific cases and situations in the context of which the institute of settlement is regulated in the Civil Code. The thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter is introductory and it specifies settlement as the institution of law in a general way. The second chapter describes a co-ownership and it is divided into five subchapters. The first four subchapters deal with regulation of co-ownership and its settlement pursuant to Act No. 40/1964 Coll. whereas both ways of settlement are described in these subchapters, i. e. settlement of co-ownership by agreement of the co-owners and by resolution of the court as well. The last subchapter deals with changes in regulation, which were made in connection with Act No. 89/2012 Coll., the Civil Code. The third chapter dedicates to settlement of the joint property of spouses which occurs, in particular, when the marriage ceases to exist. In specific situations, extinction of the joint property of spouses occurs when the marriage exists. The first subchapter of the third chapter focuses on the joint property of spouses in a general way and following three subchapters deal..