Conctractual penalty

PhD thesis Contractual penalty concerns legal regulation of the contractual penalty in the Czech legal order and focuses on the most frequent application problems, which co- contractors at agreement on contractual penalty are faced with. Introductory chapters put emphasis on an interpretation of the term contractual penalty itself and on legislation genesis from the ancient Rome time to the present legal regulation of the contractual penalty included in Act N.89/2012 Sb., the Civil Code. The following chapters deal with some questionable aspects of an agreement on the contractual penalty, such as the form and the content of agreement, amount of the contractual penalty and its adequacy. The final part of the thesis describes legal regulation of the contractual penalty in the Republic of Croatia and in the Republic of Macedonia to a reader. This passage of the thesis takes into account also results of decision-making experiences of courts in the Republic of Croatia and in the Republic of Macedonia