Residential lease

The aim of my thesis is to analyse the legislation regarding the residential lease and to compare the new Civil code regulation with the old Civil code regulation. Whereas some provisons of the old Civil code were completely replaced by the new legislation and some were practically left untouched. The thesis is composed of seven chapters and subchapters. The introductory part consists of the overview of the historical evolution of the residential lease and definition of fundamental terminology. The main part of the thesis concentrates on describing the residential lease and changes of the relating legislation. The last part concentrates on interesting court rulings. The first chapter presents the overview of the changes in the residential lease legislation, from the 19th century to the present day and is divided into three broad historical periods. The second chapter comprises the main definitions including definiton of the residential lease, definitiv of a flat, cooperative housing flat, sublease and other types of flats. The third chapter mentions various ways of establishing the residential lease and mainly concentrates on lease contract, which is the most common reason for establishing the residential lease. The fourth chapter summarizes the changes in the regulation of rights and obligations of..