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Fraudulent bankruptcy is one of the criminal law’s “Cinderellas” because the legislator was highly oscillating with regard to the sanctioning regime, the rules indicting this deed suffered frequent changes of the contents and the seat of the matter was found in the recent years in several legal acts (the Commercial Code, Law no. 31/1990, Law no. 64/1995, Law no. 85/2006 and the 2009 Criminal Code). This study focuses both on the analysis of the fraudulent bankruptcy offense under the new Criminal Code and on the specific concepts. -
The author strongly criticizes the regulation stated in art. 519 to 521 of the new (Romanian) Code of Civil Procedure (referral to the High Court of Cassation and Justice for a prior ruling for dispensation of law issues), considering, reasoned, that these texts should be expressly repealed so that, also in the case covered by art. 519, an appeal in the interest of law can be filed (Articles 514 to 518 of the same code).
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The authors comment on the provisions of art. 1013 to 1024 of the new Romanian Code of Civil Procedure (Law no. 134/2010 of the Code of Civil Procedure, republished in the “Official Gazette of Romania”, Part I, no. 545 of 3 August 2012 and entered into force on 15 February 2013) on the instruction payment special procedure, whereby the legislator establishes uniform rules for combating the late payment of certain amounts of money, bringing together the provisions previously established by the two laws, currently repealed (Government Ordinance no. 5/2001 and Government Emergency Ordinance no. 119/2007). When stating the conclusions of the study, the authors welcome the legislative solution and point out that the payment instruction procedure can be used concurrently with the small claims procedure (art. 1025 to 1032 Civil Procedure Code), as these two special procedures do not exclude each other.
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In this study, the author provides a critical analysis of the content of art. 2322 of the Civil Code that has entered into force on 1 October 2011, regulating for the first time, in terms of legislation, autonomous guarantee instrument of the letter of comfort. Given the lack of doctrinal explanations and of the Romanian jurisprudence in this regard, the author makes a comparative law analysis regarding the use of this instrument, employing as reference points the Common Law systems and Continental Law systems based on the existence of a Civil Code. This instrument is known since the early 1960s by the international transactions practice, but the corresponding case law is quite limited and in some legislation, although frequently used, letters of comfort are not subject to an expressis verbis legislative regulation. The author emphasizes the Romanian Civil Code modern nature together with the call for a consistent use, in practice, of this legal institution.
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The present study aims mainly to identify those wordings in Law no. 287/ 2009 on the Civil Code which apply to testamentary inheritance issues that have certain shortcomings, and to find, as much as possible, the best solutions for remediation thereof.
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The present study comprehensively examined the Land Book Registration Prescription issue in the new Romanian Civil Code (Law no. 287/2009, which has entered into force on 1 October 2011), stressing in particular, the matters of substantive law as well as the provisional (inter-temporal) law and the correlation between Land Book Registration Prescription issues and the principle of land book material publicity.
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Potrivit art. 320 C.pr.pen., dacã pânã la începerea cercetãrii judecãtorești inculpatul declarã personal sau prin înscris autentic cã recunoaște sãvârșirea faptelor reținute în actul de sesizare a instanței și solicitã ca judecata sã se facã în baza probelor administrate în faza de urmãrire penalã, instanța va pronunța condamnarea inculpatului, care beneficiazã de reducerea cu o treime a limitelor de pedeapsã prevãzute de lege, în cazul pedepsei închisorii… -
Elementul material al infracțiunii de înșelãciune existã distinct de elementul material al infracțiunii de fals în înscrisuri sub semnãturã privatã, activitatea de falsificare a înscrisurilor și folosirea lor în vederea producerii de consecințe juridice consumându-se la momentul sesizãrii instanței, activitatea ulterioarã desfãșuratã de inculpat de inducere în eroare a pãrților vãtãmate în scopul obținerii unui folos material injust realizând latura obiectivã a infracțiunii de înșelãciune, rãmasã în forma tentativei (cu notã criticã)
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In this study the author makes a comprehensive analysis of cyber crime and how to fight, prevent and investigate this. The analytical approach is based on the definition of cyber crime, of its characteristics, and finally on the identification of the specific means of evidence that are used in the criminal investigations
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Following the repeal of the legal provisions set forth in the Law. 83/1995 and then in the Law. 130/1999, which generally regulated the situations in which, instead of concluding an individual employment agreement, a civil agreement for services could be concluded, the question arises in which cases and under which conditions such civil agreements can be concluded at present, under legal circumstances. In the article below the author studies this problem and draws up finally, as well, some proposals de lege ferenda to avoid any discussions and controversies in the field.
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This study aims to analyze certain particular problems in the execution of the legal employment relationships, namely the work performed without the conclusion of an individual employment agreement and the noncompliance between the contractual clauses and the manner (in fact) of the execution of the contractual rights and obligations. These cases were grouped under the denomination of work wholly or partially dissimulated. After identifying the situations leading to the dissimulated work, the analysis of the causes that determine it and of the effects that it generates, any proposals are formulated for the purpose of increasing the penalties against those who hide the real way of the execution of the work.
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The question of the public legal aid in civil matters was settled by the Government of Romania by issuing the Government Emergency Ordinance no. 51/2008 on legal aid in civil matters. However, the regulation issued in relation to public legal aid in civil matters fails to cover all situations that may arise in legal practice, one of the unregulated issues referring to the applications made by several people together, in which case the court fees stamp are due jointly.
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Despite of the settling for several years in the Romanian legislation of the regulation giving the creditor the opportunity to regulate the enforcement of the debtor’s obligation, the holder of a trademark, in the manner of the legal seizure of the trademark directly from the estate of the latter – the provisions of art. 40 para. (2) of the Law no. 84/1998 on trademarks and geographical indications, the creditors completely ignore this option as they are not able to anticipate its multiple advantages. The legal seizure of a strong trademark known among consumers – the recipients of the goods or services which the trademark is associated to, confers the creditor seeking enforcement a true mean of enforcing the debtor in the voluntary and immediate execution of its duty. The latter is threatened with the loss of the right to use the trademark in its trade activity, a trademark that it had made famous in time with significant costs and making continuous effort. The manner in which the legislator intended to outline the text of art. 40 para. (2) of the Law no. 84/1998 suggests indirectly that the trademark rights can be enforced ut singuli, distinctly from the goodwill in which they are included, and the legal nature of the concept of trademark determine the means of enforcement whose procedures have to be followed in order to achieve the ultimate goal – recovery of the claim: the indirect. movable enforcement, by sale at auction of the trademark rights, after its evaluation by a judicial technical expert in the matter of the industrial property rights.
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The development of the regulations in the matter of the consumer protection has contributed significantly to the reconstruction of traditional tort institution, providing a new focus on the fundamentals of such liability, by revaluing its functions and establishing a new coherence. The flaw in the product has been reported to the lack of security that a person can legitimately expect, given the circumstances of the presentation and use at the time of the product release. The breach of the security obligation entails the civil liability for damages to all persons who contributed to a defective product to be acquired by the consumer, from the manufacturer up to the distributor. Within these coordinates, in its study the authors examine the specificity of this civil obligation under the assumption of liability for defective products, in terms of European law regulations, and of the domestic law.
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This study examines the issue of dialogue between the Court of Justice of the European Union and the constitutional courts of the Member States of the European Union, with special reference to the Constitutional Court of Romania, and from this perspective, the effects of integration into the European Union and the transnational judicial dialogue they produce within the national legal systems.
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In the study, the author makes an analysis of the preventive measures applicable to the individual in the system of the new Criminal Procedure Code adopted in Romania. The general conditions to be fulfilled for taking all preventive measures, the particular conditions specific to each measure, the grounds and the procedure to be followed for the determination of such measures, are detailed. The emphasis is laid on the house arrest, an institution that has a new nature in the Romanian criminal procedural legislation, but we pay attention to the manner in which the detention, the preventive arrest, the judicial review and the judicial review on bail. The author makes a number of proposals to improve the legislation in the matter, for those situations in which it considers them to be necessary.
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On the occasion of the modification of the claims regarding the establishment of a seizure, the judge of the cause of action should examine to what extent, from the psychological and legal point of view, the active involvement of the creditor – most often the single litigant who knows the existence of the file – prejudices certain fundamental principles of the civil trial such as the principle of the equality of arms or the principle of contradictoriality. The simple record of the presence of the party, in the absence of the other party, is sufficient to affect, by itself, these cardinal ordinances of the civil trial. The principle of availability cannot justify a proportional reduction in the amount of the bail in relation to the reduction of the sum to the amount to which the establishment of the seizure is required; otherwise, it would create an insurmountable “obstacle” in the path of the debtor which, “exposing” the abusive approach of the creditor subsequently, would be obliged to have its fill of an inappropriate bail of the suffered prejudice.
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This article discusses the material and territorial jurisdiction for the settlement in the matter of land fund disputes. The material jurisdiction is examined in terms of art. 94 item 1. letter j), art. 94 items 3 and 4, Art. 95 item 1 of the Code of Civil Procedure and the special regulations contained in Law no. 18/1991, as republished, and the territorial jurisdiction of the perspective of art. 107 para. (1), art. 117 of the Code of Civil Procedure and the special law. The jurisdiction issue concerns the various actions on the land fund, arising from the enforcement of the Law no. 18/1991, as republished. The regulation of the jurisdiction of the actions settlement in the matter of the land fund, in favor of the same court, is proposed de lege ferenda.
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This article aims to present the main aspects of the legal marriage age, as governed by the new Romanian Civil Code. After a brief introductory part, the legal provisions regulating marriage at the age of majority are examined. Further, the provisions of the Civil Code regulating marriage before the age of majority are examined, and the conditions under which the minor may enter into marriage are debated: the child reaches the age of 16, there are good reasons, the existence of a medical certificate, the existence of consents required by law, respectively the parents’ consent or the consent of one of their parents or if appropriate, of the guardian and in their absence, of the person or authority which was entitled to exercise the parental rights and the guardianship court authorization. In the final part the conclusions drawn from this study are highlighted.
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The author analyzes the legal status of undue payment, regarded as a source of civil obligations, such as they results in the texts of the new Civil Code. It has been specified since the beginning of the study that in general no essential amendments were reported in relation to the definition and existence conditions of this legal deed. However, it is noted as a novelty that the rules of undue payment in the new legislative environment apply also when the payment consists of the provision of services or execution of works. Likewise, the new Civil Code, unlike the old regulation, does not set forth anymore expressly the condition that the payment be made in error by solvents; however, the author argues, with convincing arguments, that the error of solvens is usually an actually relative prerequisite of the undue payment. A large space is given to the obligation to reimburse the undue payment and the rules applicable to it regarding the existence, the limits and its manner of execution. Most of these rules are located in a separate title of the Civil Code (Art. 1635 to 1649) and apply, with some exceptions, to all reimbursement obligations, regardless of their source. The author notes that, in their content, these rules contain many new elements compared to the old Civil Code, which tries and manages to examine carefully, formulating relevant solutions and answers.
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ACȚIUNE CIVILÃ. ASIGURÃTOR DE RÃSPUNDERE CIVILÃ În conformitate cu dispozițiile Legii nr. 136/1995, instanța dispune obligarea asigurãtorului de rãspundere civilã, în mod direct, în limita obligației sale contractuale, la plata despãgubirilor cãtre partea civilã (Înalta Curte de Casație și Justiție, Secția penalã, decizia nr. 3405 din 23 octombrie 2012). -
Potrivit art. 2781 alin. (8) lit. c) C.pr.pen., judecãtorul pronunțã soluția: „admite plângerea, prin încheiere, desființeazã rezoluția sau ordonanța atacatã și, când probele existente la dosar sunt suficiente, reține cauza spre judecare, în complet legal constituit, dispozițiile privind judecata în primã instanțã și cãile de atac aplicându-se în mod corespunzãtor”(cu notã criticã).
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The article analyzes the specific references that an offence notice has to contain compulsorily, stating an offence of the regime of driving on public roads. Although the elements of the road traffic report shall be determined by the framework law in the contravention matter, respectively the Government Ordinance no. 2/2001, the specificity of the road traffic offenses require certain specific features of these notices, especially about the description way of the act recorded as an offence, about the legal classification of the offense and the application of additional sanctions.
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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.
