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Historical development of legal regulation of register keeping and surnames in the Czech lands
Poledno, Jan ; Kuklík, Jan (advisor) ; Šouša, Jiří (referee)
Historical development of legal regulation of register keeping and surnames in the Czech lands This thesis examines the legal regulation of register keeping and surnames in the Czech lands from the start of keeping records and the use of surnames up until the current legal regulation, Act No. 301/2000 Coll., on Civil Registers, Names and Surnames and on Amendments to Certain Related Acts (hereinafter referred to as the "Act on Civil Registers of 2000"). In terms of historical legislation, the thesis focuses in detail on the Imperial Patent of 20 February 1784, on keeping registers of births, marriages and deaths by parish authorities (hereafter referred to as the "Registries Patent of 1784"); Act No. 268/1949 Coll., on Civil Registers (hereinafter referred to as the "1949 Act on Civil Registers") and Act No. 55/1955 Coll., on the Use and Change of Names and Surnames (hereinafter referred to as the "Names and Surnames Act of 1950"). The first part of the thesis provides a definition of the terms 'register' and 'surname.' The second part describes the development of the concepts of registers and surnames. The third part of the thesis gives an explanation of the legal regulation of registers and surnames in the period of church dominance, i.e. until the year 1784, and deals exclusively with church...
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