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By the provisions of Article 657 (2) of the Civil Code it is regulated the situation in which the destruction of a smaller part of a building takes place, destruction that does not affect the building as a whole nor in a proportion of no more than half of its value, in which situation the co-owners are bound to contribute to the restoration of the common parts proportionally to the quota-share of each of them. The law establishes the obligativity of those co-owners who either do not want or can not participate in the restoration, to assign the quota-shares of the right of forced joint ownership to the other co-owners, meaning that it establishes a modality of extinguishing the right of private property, which, in our opinion, is likely to give rise to some situations that are hard to accept. -
Law No 78/2014 regarding the regulation of volunteering in Romania provides that a volunteer agreement can be concluded by any natural person „who has acquired capacity to work according to the legislation in the field of labour.” Whereas this phrasing is likely to generate controversies and discussions (the Law No 78/2014 being a law in the field of civil law, and not in the field of the labour law), the author examines precisely at what age minors may conclude volunteer agreements. The author’s conclusion, resulting from the corroboration of Articles 41–42 of the Civil Code with Article 13 of the Labour Code, is that: minors may conclude volunteer agreements after they turned 14, but between 14–16 years of age the consent of their parents, guardians, etc., is also required and, after the minor turned 16, he may conclude such an agreement himself, without the above-mentioned consent. -
The author deals with the jurisdiction for carrying out forced pursuit acts from the perspective of the provisions of Article 651 (2) and of Article 818 (1) of the new Civil Procedure Code and analyzes the problems of selling a building in an auction „at the highest offered price”. The analysis is carried out in the light of the condition of price seriousness required in matters of sale, where the serious price is the one which constitutes a sufficient cause of the obligation undertaken by the seller to transmit the property right on the asset that is the object of sale and it is transposed into the existence of a ratio between the quantum of the price established by the parties and the real value of the sold asset, without however claiming an equivalence between the price and the value of the asset. -
As a result of the substance amendments brought to the Labor Code (Law no. 53/2003) according to Law no. 40/2011, followed in a short period of time, by the enactment of Law no. 62/2011 of social dialogue, certain contradictions were generated between the Labor Code (as republished on 18 May 2011) and Law no. 62/2011, generating a series of controversies in the Romanian judicial doctrine. Some of these controversies are reexamined by the author of this study who, after debating them, reaches certain interesting conclusions. -
In negotiated contracts where parties have established clauses by mutual agreement so-called „abusive clauses” may exist. The abusive character of such clauses may be invoked in negotiated contracts on the ground that one party is always stronger than the other. The penal clause in negotiated contracts may be considered abusive if penalties are excessively high in relation to the extent of the damage or with regard to the value of the delivery. This study examines abusive clauses and abusive penal clauses in exclusive distribution contracts, in leasing contracts and in administrative contracts.
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This study examines the regulation of the Civil Code, entered into force on 1 October 2011, in respect of non-essential clauses, standard clauses, external clauses or extrinsic and unusual clauses, in the process of conclusion of contracts. Despite the intention of simplification which the Civil Code had in view, the risks and the issues generated by these legal instruments can be imagined, even in this early stage of its application. Within this analysis, there are also reported some problems, as well as some possible solutions in this respects. -
The problematical issues concerning the documents issued by the President of Romania in exercising his constitutional and legal powers and the settlement of disputes derived from these documents have been less discussed in the literature of speciality. Starting from this reality, this study intends to analyze these issues, by comparing the provisions of the Law on the administrative disputes No 554/2004 to the provisions of the revised Constitution and to other special normative acts in the matter. In this context, the study analyzes in detail the documents issued by the President of Romania in exercising his constitutional and legal powers, the documents issued by the President of Romania which may be subject to an action for administrative disputes, as well as the documents which are excepted from the control of the court of administrative disputes. -
The direct action is a means to settle debts, created in order to protect privileged creditors. Thus, such action must be expressly provided by law. With regard to the lease contracts, the new Civil Code brings a new element, regulating the right of the lessor to hold the sub-lessee liable for the payment of the rent or for the failure to enforce the contract. As the right conferred to the lessor represents a new element within the Romanian doctrine, there is a necessity to perform an extended study of the direct action derived of the lease contract. This study tackles a general analysis of the direct action of the lessor against the sub-lessee from the perspective of the new Civil Code. Furthermore, there are references within the text regarding the old stipulation in relation to the new one. Last but not least, there will be constant references to the French doctrine as well as to the de lege ferenda propositions for the amendment of the texts within the new Civil Code. -
In this study, it is analyzed the direct action of the mandator against the sub-mandatary, in light of the new Romanian Civil Code (the Law No 287/2009, republished on 15 July 2011). In this respect there are examined successively: the direct action in the legal relations arising from the contract of mandate, both under the old Romanian Civil Code (of 1864, in force until 30 September 2011) and under the influence of the new Civil Code (in force since 1 October 2011); the liability of the mandatary towards the mandator; the problem whether the mandatary and the sub-mandatary are jointly liable or not; the effects of the direct action of the mandator against the sub-mandatary and others. -
While the judicial authorities have rigorous procedure codes, and the legislative authority has regulations for the development and adoption of laws, the public administration authorities in general and local government in particular „are still suffering in this respect”. To fill the „gap” that exists in some /partial sides of the administrative procedure, since the Administrative Procedure Code has not been yet adopted, in this study the authors intended (invoking the tangent jurisprudence) to contribute to the elucidation of the two cases (of many) in a segment in which positive law is quite vague, thus allowing an inconsistent practice, sometimes even arbitrary. -
The above entitled study concerns the analysis of the Romanian Civil Code current provisions relating to the “Preciput Clause”; the said provisions are inspired mainly from the corresponding regulations of the 1804 French Civil Code. Specifically, it examined the Preciput Clause in terms of its legal nature, beneficiaries, objectives and execution hereof. Also, existence of improvable aspects in regulating this Romanian legal system unique legal institution has been reported and, consequently, certain de lege ferenda proposals were grounded. -
This study is devoted to some critical appreciations in connection with the use, in a relatively recent specialty paper, of some „practicist expressions” in order to designate the territorial jurisdiction of the court of first instance to settle the divorce applications („court of first instance having jurisdiction over the place of residence of the defendant”, „court of first instance having jurisdiction over the place of residence of the applicant” etc.). Likewise, our analysis also concerns the conclusions drawn within the same paper in connection with the concurrence between the territorial jurisdiction theses regulated by Article 3 (1) a) and those provided by letter b) of the Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, repealing Regulation (EC) No 1347/2000.
