New Civil Code

Navigate the new Civil Code! The revolutionary changes in civil law will affect everyone from 1 January 2014. The new series of popular and educational publications comprehensively covering the whole range of issues regulated by the new Civil Code is intended mainly for readers who are not legal experts but need to orient themselves in the new legal regulation. In the first part, the reader will get an overview of the basic principles of the new Civil Code. These are the basic pillars on which the new legislation is built and which are a guide for the interpretation and application of other statutory provisions. We explain the new concepts of natural and legal person, personality, and self-capacity. We will explain how a legal entity is formed, what its organs are, how it changes and how it is dissolved. We also cover contractual and statutory representation and the special conditions of representation by a member of the household and representation of a business. You get a basic understanding of things and legal facts, i.e. legal actions and legal events.