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Act No. 89/2012 laying down the Civil Code.

Country/Territory
Czechia
Document type
Legislation
Date
2012
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Agricultural & rural development, Livestock, Forestry, Land & soil, Water, General
Keyword
Business/industry/corporations Contract/agreement Agricultural land Smallholders/peasants Forest management/forest conservation Forestry protection measures Common property Expropriation Inheritance Land tenure Lease Liability/compensation Ownership Private land Property rights Registration Right of use Servitude Transfer Cattle Grazing Pastoralism Water abstraction Water rights Waterworks Rainwater
Geographical area
Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries
Abstract

The current Civil Code in Czechia was adopted in 2012. It entered into force on January 2014 and replaced the previous Civil Code of 1964. The new Code takes over many provisions of other Acts which are at the same time repealed, for example the Family Act and the Act on Association of Persons. The Code is composed of the following Books: I) General provisions; II) Family law; III) the Property Law part (which regulates the tenure, the possession, the ownership and co-ownership, the encumbrance, the lien, and also the heirship) ; IV) the Contractual Law part (where new types of contractual relations are defined); VI) Common, transitional and final provisions.

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