New Civil Codes in Hungary and Romania

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Legal Persons in the New Civil Code of Hungary

   • Zoltán Csehi

   Pages 1-14

3. Default Rules on Companies in the New Hungarian Civil Code

   • András Kisfaludi

   Pages 15-25

4. The New Romanian Civil Code—Difficulties in the Transition Towards a Monist Private Law

   • Emőd Veress

   Pages 27-34

5. The Persistence of Some Characteristics of Commercial Law in the Monist Romanian Civil Law

   • Zsolt Fegyveresi

   Pages 35-42

6. Property Law in the New Hungarian Civil Code: Key Issues

   • Attila Menyhárd

   Pages 43-58

7. Property Law in the New Romanian Civil Code

   • Szilárd Sztranyiczki

   Pages 59-71

8. Intellectual Property in the New Civil Code of Hungary

   • Gábor Faludi

   Pages 73-81

9. The New Civil Code of Romania and Its Impact on Intellectual Property

   • Ligia Cătuna

   Pages 83-105

10. Some Structural Questions on the Relationship Between Contractual and Extracontractual Liability in the New Hungarian Civil Code

    • Ádám Fuglinszky

    Pages 107-129

11. New Particular Agreements in the New Hungarian Civil Code

    • Balázs Tőkey

    Pages 131-144

12. Unforeseeable Changes in Circumstances in Contracts in the New Romanian Civil Code

    • Johanna Szekrényes

    Pages 145-157

13. Perceptions of Simulated Contracts in the Hungarian and Romanian Legal Systems

    • Krisztina Constantinescu

    Pages 159-171

14. Marriage and Cohabitation in the New Hungarian Civil Code—Answering the New Challenges

    • Orsolya Szeibert

    Pages 173-191

15. The Law of Succession in the New Hungarian Civil Code

    • Hella Molnár

    Pages 193-207

16. Law of Succession in the New Romanian Civil Code

    • János Székely

    Pages 209-226

This edited volume examines two recent Central European recodifications of civil law. The contributors present and discuss the regulation and the fundamental changes related to the new Civil Codes in each country. They also highlight the novelties and some of the issues of great debate of the new regulation. The papers investigate specific parts of the two Civil Codes. Coverage reviews default rules of legal persons and companies, key issues of the new regulations of property law, and the topic of intellectual property. The contributors also consider the law of obligation, unforeseeable changes in circumstances in contracts, family law and law of succession, and more.

Hungary and Romania connect to each other by their special historical and cultural background, which serves as a solid basis of great cooperation. This volume shows how the two countries view civil law. It offers readers straightforward and practice-oriented knowledge on the subject.

• Civil Law in Central Europe
• Civil Code in Central Europe
• Hungarian Civil Code
• Law of Obligations in Central Europe
• Company Law in Central Europe
• Family Law in Central Europe
• Default rules on Companies in the Hungarian Civil Code
• Legal persons in the Civil Code of Hungary
• New Romanian Civil Code
• Commercial Law in the Monist Romanian Civil Law
• Property law in the New Hungarian Civil Code
• Property Law in the New Romanian Civil Code
• Intellectual Property in the Civil Code of Hungary
• Contractual Liability in Hungarian Civil Code
• Contracts in the New Romanian Civil Code
• Simulated Contracts in the Hungarian and Romanian Legal Systems
• Marriage and Cohabitation in the New Hungarian Civil Code
• Law of Succession in the New Hungarian Civil Code
• Law of Succession in the New Romanian Civil Code

• Department of Civil Law, Faculty of Law, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

  Attila Menyhárd

• Department of Law, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

  Emőd Veress

Attila Menyhárd is full professor of private law, head of department and dean of Eötvös Loránd University Law School in Budapest, Hungary. President of the Advisory Board to the Curia (e.g. highest court in Hungary); member of the Operative Committee for Recodification of the Hungarian Civil Code; fellow of the European Centre for Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL). His research interests cover among other things tort law, contract law, property law, company law, trusts, law and economics, human rights in private law, the relations and borderlines of private and public law and the private law aspects of European law.

Emőd Veress is full professor of private law and head of department at the Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca, Romania; arbitrator and attorney. Secretary general of the “Societas — Central and Eastern European Company Law Research Network”; member of the “European Society of Comparative Legal History.” Author of a very succesful Romanian

study book on the general part of the law of obligations and of a monograph on suretyship contracts. His research interests cover among other things law of obligations, creditor protection in company law and insolvency law, comparative private law.

 

 

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