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This study presents the divergent case law generated by the current insufficient regulation of the legal regime of burial plots and funeral constructions, such as burial vaults and crypts. While some courts admit the assignment of the tomb to one heir, others consider that the concession right over the burial plot and the funeral constructions bears upon a forced and perpetual indivisibility which excludes the division. As a solution, it proposes a clarification of the legal regime applicable to funeral concessions and the explicit regulation of the use of underground burial vaults, especially from the perspective of the exclusive right to be buried in a particular crypt. -
This study aims to develop concepts already outlined in the doctrine, but in the light of the modern law on self-defence and exceeding its limits, containing transitional issues in relation to the new Criminal Code, accompanied by the case law up to date and reasonable own notes, while emphasizing the theoretical and practical controversies encountered. The article is prepared in an analytical style, the author reveals the key aspects regarding certain particularities and difficulties arising from the combination of the letter of the law with its enforcement. In addition to the aforementioned aspects, certain elements related to the comparative law are present, and the provisions of the (European) Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms concerning self-defence, as well as de lege ferenda proposals. -
It is of interest both from theoretical perspective and mostly from practical perspective to raise for discussion and, furthermore, to propose some solutions for some controversial issues related to succession law, as well as to settle a conflict of laws in time. Therefore, in this paper there are emphasized some of the facets which the temporal conflict of laws can take, in the matter of inheritances, and there are expressed some points of view, which could be of interest to the practitioners, determining them to reflect on this topic. -
After examining the criminal rules contained in the Government Emergency Ordinance no. 202/2002, the authors formulate several proposals de lege ferenda regarding the crimes regulated by this piece of legislation. -
In this study, the author makes a thorough analysis of the so-called tax havens, outlining their connection with organized crime. Thus, the definition and main characteristics of tax havens, the types of tax havens and certain measures adopted at EU level to limit thereof are portrayed herein. -
According to the new criminal regulation, the offence of misleading the judicial bodies preserves some elements of the offence of false accusation, which is currently not provided anymore, but both the constitutive content and the sanctioning system show serious changes. -
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. -
The article includes some considerations regarding the procedural dispositions concerning the purpose of criminal lawsuit, as regulated in the Code of Criminal Procedure. The author analyzes the dispositions of the new Code of Criminal Procedure which establishes the purpose of the rules of criminal procedure, by reference to the dispositions of the Code of Criminal Procedure in force where the purpose of criminal lawsuit is established. -
In this article, the author examines the crime of treason by giving aid to the enemy both in terms of the current Criminal Code and in light of the new Criminal Code, pointing out, where appropriate, the main similarities and differences between the two regulations. -
This study deals with the problems related to the offence provided in Article 9 of the Law No 143/2000 on preventing and combating illicit drug trafficking and consumption. The interpretation of the legal text is made by comparison with the previous regulation, but also by the literal interpretation of the indicated rule. Moreover, the author studies the modality of application of the text of law to concrete situations which may arise in the judicial practice. -
The higher interest of the child is the only finality of the actions of parents and the only criterion that justifies the intervention of the State in the relations between parents and children. In the new Civil Code the main concern of the Romanian legislator is to detension the relationships between spouses and their minor children, recognizing that the higher interest of the children is, first of all, that of being affected to the smallest extent by the effects of the parents’ divorce, thus allowing both divorced spouses to exercise their parental authority. By reference to the previous regulation – the Family Code, it is a radically different vision, „a true revolution in the field”, „a modern solution” according to which, after the divorce, the parental authority is not split up between the parents, but they exercise it together, as recommended by Article 18 paragraph 1 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The new Civil Code has established the principle of shared parental authority in order to allow the parents to continue to be, despite their separation, partners in a proactive and effective manner in all important decisions relative to the health, education, training and recreation of their common children, a principle that becomes thus an ideal to be achieved. This study analyzes these aspects. -
According to the monist conception regarding the private law, the current Civil Code (Law no. 287/2009) inserted in the scope of its regulation the trade, including bank agreements – the current bank account, the bank deposit, the credit facility, the rental of safety deposit box for valuables. The specificity of the scope, mainly, „the publicity” and the reiterative nature of banking operations, left the essential, not only the technical aspects, within the scope of special regulations – prevalent, numerous and difficult to be codified. This study reveals the items set up by the current Civil Code regarding the typically bank agreements, the more so as no substantial right of them has existed until the adoption of this legislative instrument.
