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Liability for damages caused by wild animals
Maxa, Hubert ; Dvořák, Jan (advisor) ; Thöndel, Alexandr (referee)
Liability for damage caused by game The damage liability poses the key and complex issues of civil substantive law with some aspects not yet properly investigated. The civil liability may have various forms and it demonstrates in a whole range of social relationships, which the doctrine tries to reflect by its systematisation and categorisation. In this respect, for damage caused by animals as special entity presents a specific case liability. Damage caused by game can be considered as special case mainly as the harmful agent is a living organism, of which the behaviour cannot be predicted to a certain extent. Since 1 January 2014, however, the civil-law regulations take the liability for damage caused by animals explicitly into account and assume that the persons responsible should be the owner of the respective animal or the actual holder. The concept of the liability is based on the owner or holder being aware or related risks and hence acting in a way preventing the animal to cause damage. While the Civil Code effective from 1 January 2014 regulates the liability for damage caused by animals that is owned by somebody and hence compensates the deficit of previous regulations, the liability for damage caused by game is very problematic and not regulated sufficiently; damage cause by game poses...

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