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The presentation of the new civil law regulations in our country provides us with the opportunity for introspection in the legislations, case law and doctrine of other countries from which our lawmaker inspired. An example in this respect is the « administration of the property of others » which is an institution taken over from the Civil Code of the Quebec Province, Canada. From this perspective, the authors considered necessary and useful to make a presentation of the evolution and content of the institution in the « Québécois » Civil Code, in the current stage of reform in our country. They mention the civillaw nature of the legal system in this Canadian province and the work of its civil code re-codification, which was completed in 1994. The central subject of the article is the administration of the property of others, with the presentation of the administrator, the beneficiary, the forms of administration, as well as its termination. The authors briefly mention legislative provisions in this field in other countries as well. Moreover, under the analysis regarding the general nature of the regulation regarding the administration of the property of others, the authors also emphasized other provisions of the new Civil Code referring to this institution, such as the investments considered safe, the trust, the guardianship of a minor child, the taking-over of mortgaged property. The authors emphasize the importance of relating to the doctrine and case law belonging to the legislative system from which the new regulations in our Civil Code come and their adjustment to the social-legal life in Romania, taking into consideration its particularities. -
The Romanian Civil Procedure Code currently in force regulates, among others, the cross-appeal and the caused appeal, but these remedies are not regulated in the hypothesis of the (extraordinary) second appeal. The new Romanian Civil Procedure Code (published on 15 June 2010, but not yet in force) enacts both the caused cross-appeal and the caused cross-second appeal. After presenting the new regulation, the authors consider that, while the cross-/caused appeal is justified (since the appeal is a devolutionary remedy), the cross-/caused second appeal is not justified, since it is not compatible with the specific nature of the extraordinary second appeal.
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This study, having as theme general and special observations regarding the new Romanian Civil Procedure Code (Law no. 134/2010), after some brief preliminary observations, proceeds to a more thorough analysis of the fundamental themes of this Code, namely: the accentuation of procedural liberalism; the quality of the civil procedure law; the right of access to justice; the uniform interpretation and application of the law by the courts; celerity in the civil trial; accentuation of the effectiveness of remedies at law; higher-quality valorization of enforcement orders.
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The article presents the extended confiscation from the perspective of the Council Framework Decision 2005/212/JHA of 24 February 2005 on Confiscation of Crime-Related Proceeds, Instrumentalities and Properties, supporting the opportunity of its transposition into the domestic law, considering justified the fact that the perpetrator of a crime is required to prove the illicit origin of products presumed to be connected with a crime of a certain seriousness, by reducing or reversing the burden of proof as regards the source of the properties held by a person convicted for an offense related to organized crime, under a special procedure established by law.
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In the current stage, the economic-financial crime represents the main factor through which the consolidated State budget or the special budgets are deprived of important financial sources. In this article, the author has intended to make an analysis of the tax evasion crimes committed by withholding and not paying to the State budget, within the legal periods, the amounts representing taxes or withholding taxes, with direct consequences both on the budgetary resources and on the social insurance rights of the employees.
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Starting from the provisions of art. 51 of the Constitution of Romania (regulating the right to petition), of the Government Ordinance no. 27/2002 (ordering the public authorities and institutions to solve the petitions of citizens within 30 days after the date of their registration), corroborated with a series of provisions of Law no. 554/2004 on administrative claims, also taking into consideration the case law in the matter, the authors examine in detail the regulations in this field and, in the end, correlating all these facts, they tend to draw conclusions in the field examined.
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Taking into consideration that this is a matter in which there are serious controversies in the doctrine and multiple contradictory solutions in the legal practice, this feature (unity or plurality of passive subjects) should not be mentioned as a constitutive feature of the continued crime, thus suggesting the idea that the solution had the adhesion of the entire doctrine. In this respect, the solution of the criminal law in force, which defines continued crime without adding the mentioned feature, seems fairer to us than the solution provided by the new Criminal Code.
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The author believes that tort liability for the “ruin of building” (regulated in a similar manner in the current Romanian Civil Code – art. 1002 –, and in the new Romanian Civil Code – art. 1378 –, the latter not yet in force) was erroneously regulated as a special form of the liability “for things”, when, in reality, the liability for the “ruin of building” is simply a case of liability “for things” (art. 1000 paragraph 1 of the current Civil Code; art. 1376 of the new Civil Code). Also, the author severely criticizes the legal regulation in both Codes due to the fact that it limits the tort liability of the owner of the ruined building exclusively to the situations in which the ruin of the building is due to the lack of maintenance or to any construction fault.
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ANDREESCU, MARIUS - Principiul proporționalitãții, criteriu de admisibilitate a cererilor de înlocuire a mãsurii arestãrii preventive. În: Dreptul, nr. 4/2010, p. 169-174. „De lege ferenda”, autorul propune ca în noul Cod penal, la capitolul care reglementeazã individualizarea judiciarã a pedepsei, sã se prevadã în mod expres cã sancțiunea penalã trebuie sã fie proporționalã cu situația de fapt, gradul de pericol social al faptei și scopul legii penale. În acest fel, s-ar garanta nu numai legalitatea sancțiunilor penale aplicate, dar și legitimitatea, justețea acestora în raport cu criteriile prevãzute de lege. Subiect: arestare preventivã; principiul proporționalitãții; noul Cod penal.
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C’est d’abord une évidence que nombre de dispositions édictées en 1804 ont sensiblement vieilli et qu’elles méritent une sérieuse cure de rajeunissement, dans la forme comme dans le fond. Mais c’est surtout du point de vue du fond que des changements apparaissent à la fois urgents et nécessaires. Ils semblent devoir s’orienter autour de deux axes principaux. Le premier consiste à faire évoluer notre droit dans le sens d’une plus grande justice contractuelle. Cela suppose évidemment la recherche d’un meilleur équilibre entre les droits et les obligations de chacune des parties, par exemple en cas de lésion ou d’imprévision. Mais cela implique aussi une protection plus efficace du contractant considéré comme en situation de faiblesse et qui n’est pas en mesure de se défendre lui-même. Il faut, en effet, mettre fin à la fiction d’une égalité parfaite entre les parties et, sans renoncer, bien sûr, au principe de liberté contractuelle, faire place à la notion de « dépendance économique », qui est cruciale dans nombre de contrats (contrats de travail, de bail, d’assurance et, de façon générale, tous les contrats d’adhésion). C’est d’ailleurs là que se pose la question de savoir s’il ne conviendrait pas d’étendre la portée de certaines dispositions - comme le devoir d’information, l’interdiction des clauses abusives ou le principe de l’interprétation en faveur de la partie privée d’un véritable pouvoir de négociation -, qui restent trop souvent limitées à ce jour aux relations entre professionnels et consommateurs. Mais c’est, en revanche, au juge qu’il devrait revenir de faire mieux respecter la volonté des parties, à tous les stades de la vie du contrat, et ceci au moins de deux façons. D’une part, le nouveau Code devrait attacher des effets accrus à certaines manifestations unilatérales de volonté, qu’il s’agisse de promesses de contracter, de détermination du prix (suivant des modalités fixées à l’avance) ou de résolution du contrat en cas d’inexécution par l’autre partie (même en l’absence d’une clause expresse en ce sens). D’autre part, on pourrait songer à ouvrir plus largement la possibilité de l’exécution forcée en nature des obligations de faire et abolir le principe de l’exécution par équivalent, pour mettre enfin le droit en accord avec la réalité (puisqu’aussi bien la solution est déjà, en pratique et en dépit des textes - essentiellement l’article 1142 du Code civil -, le plus souvent consacrée par les juges).
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The author, making a (comparative) analysis between the regulation of voluntary intervention – principal and accessory – in the new Civil Procedure Code (published on 15 July 2010, but not yet in force), and that of art. 49–56 of the current Code, emphasizes that the essential difference between them is that, in the new Code, the application for voluntary intervention (principal or accessory) is admissible only in a “trial that is judged between the original parties”. Afterwards, examining the consequences of this situation, other discussions are also formulated regarding: the period within which the application for accessory intervention may be filed, as well as the regulations in the new Civil Procedure Code regarding the remedies against the rulings issued by courts of law in relation to the admissibility – mainly – of the application for intervention.
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La protection et mise en valeur du patrimoine culturel et naturel constituent deux des vecteurs de l’actuelle politique d’aménagement du territoire au Portugal. Il ne s’agit pas d’un aspect étonnant, prise en considération la richesse et diversité des biens (culturels et naturels) que le Pays dispose. Ainsi, et en ce qui concerne le patrimoine naturel, l’ensemble d’aires classées à l’abri du Réseau 2000 et du Réseau National des Aires Protégées représentait, déjà en 2005, 21,3% du territoire national, s’élevant même, dans certaines zones, à 50% de la surface total (comme il arrive dans la NUT de Serra da Estrela) 1. À son tour, les actions de sauvegarde et de mise en valeur du patrimoine culturel ont augmenté exponentiellement, se traduisant dans une croissance considérable du nombre de biens classés, qui a augmenté près de 85% entre 1980 et 2003. En effet, il y a des aires avec une grande concentration de patrimoine classé, comme il arrive au Norte Litoral, Área Metropolitana do Porto (avec extension vers Douro), Beira Interior, Área Metropolitana de Lisboa (avec extension vers Vale do Tejo), Alto Alentejo et Alentejo Central, avec un grand poids dans le patrimoine archéologique2.
