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Vindicatory legacy in Italian law

Author(s): Jolanta Waszczuk-Napiórkowska
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Civil Law, International Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: law of succession; specific legacy; specific bequest

Summary/Abstract: The article presents vindicatory legacy regulation in Italian law, which has been existing in the legal order for almost 150 years. The current regulation placed in the civil code in 1942 (Codice civile) was in the vast majority taken from the civil code of The United Kingdom of Italy dated 1865 (Codice civile del Regno D’Italia). The article covers an issue of establishing the vindicatory legacy with the extensive consideration of a permitted testament form, which declared that testamentory disposition may be established as well as possibility of adopting ordinary and trust substitution regulations. Moreover, the article presents a subject of vindicatory legacy and rules regarding obtaining and rejecting this form of testamentory disposition. It also discusses an issue of vindicatory legatee’s responsibility for inherited depts, including the case of responsibility for inherited debts connected with company activities, which was a subject of the vindicatory legacy.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 17
  • Page Range: 103-123
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish