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The Capacity in the Civil Law
Nechvátal, Tomáš ; Hendrychová, Michaela (referee) ; Pohl, Tomáš (referee)
PRÁVNÍ ZPŮSOBILOST V OBČANSKÉM PRÁVU ABSTRAKT V ANGLICKÉM JAZYCE THE CAPACITY IN THE CIVIL LAW The diploma thesis focuses on the legal capability in the civil law of the Czech Republic. The subject matter is broad. It includes the legal capability of natural and juridical persons. In both cases we can distinguish capacity to have rights and duties, capacity to act and capacity to be liable. Human being is a fundamental base of the legal order. There is no doubt that everyone shall have the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. Juridical personality of a man is unlimited and inalienable right. These rules have origin not only in the Czech Civil Code, but also in the constitutional Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms of the Czech Republic and international dec- larations and covenants, including The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Only mentally competent persons of legal age have the full legal capacity. The qualification to enter into a legal relation of minors according to law and long- time mentally ill people on the basis of judgment can be restricted. What is more, nowadays the District Court is allowed to deprive permanent disordered man of his or her legal capacity. Under the bill of new Czech Civil Code...
Minimum Legal Drinking Age in the U.S.: A Reasonable Exception to Age of Majority?
Lokajíčková, Jana ; Kozák, Kryštof (advisor) ; Raška, Francis (referee)
The MA thesis "Minimum Legal Drinking Age in the U.S.: A Reasonable Exception to Age of Majority?" examines the U.S. legal limit for consumption of alcohol from the perspective of policies aimed at controlling drunk driving because the minimum drinking age was set to twenty-one - higher than the age of majority - in order to reduce drunk-driving fatalities. The thesis analyzes different aspects of this issue and concludes that the high minimum legal drinking, which constitutes a severe limitation of personal freedom of those aged eighteen to twenty, did not fulfill the expectations with which it was introduced in 1984. The thesis suggests alternatives to the high age limit, and examines how and if they are implemented or what prevents their frequent use. The thesis has four parts: one provides basic facts about drinking, driving, and drunk driving in the U.S. society including the attitudes of the public toward the issue. The following part looks into the legal developments of the drinking age limits and legal challenges to the law arranging the age limit for its supposed unconstitutionality. The third chapter looks at the results of scientific research and suggests ways to deal with drunk driving more efficiently. The last part examines what prevents these more effective measures from being widely...

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