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This study analyzes the scope of application of the indirect action and of the Paulian (revocatory) action both under the influence of the Civil Code of 1864, as well as under the influence of the current civil legislation (the Civil Code of 2009). The study follows the practical application, specifically, of these actions to a variety of rights which might be exercised or revoked through them, also making reference to the specialised French doctrine. There are analyzed the specialised doctrine of our country, both current and older, as well as some judgments delivered in this matter by the law courts. There have been distinguished the novelties brought by the Civil Code of 2009, in the end making a comparative enumeration of the changes brought to these institutions by the new civil legislation. -
The principle of legal contractual certainty, as regards its component the „sustainability and efficiency of the contract”, is a fundamental principle of the contract law, which emphasizes the need to maintain the contract in the cases of partial nullity and which is dealt with under a double dimension: a quantitative one and a qualitative one. The quantitative dimension concerns the „continuity of the convention” in time and is manifested by a soft and extended duration. The qualitative dimension concerns also the context, i.e. the capacity of the contract to overcome the obstacles which the economic and social events can raise, arisen during performance of the contract. The study is focused on the applicability of the principle of contractual legal certainty both in terms of interpretation, as well as of validity and performance of the contract, with references also to the provisions from the draft European contract law, an action initiated by the European Commission.
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The article deals with the issue of joinder of executional files, making reference to the meaning of the syntagm „expenses incurred by the time of joinder”, to the possibility of reducing the court executor’s fee within this procedure, to the manner and to the time limit for contesting the interlocutory judgment of the court executor.
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This article aims to analyze a recent normative act through that were amended and supplemented the normative acts in matters of education, respectively, the Law on national education No 1/2011 and the Government Emergency Ordinance No 75/2005 on quality assurance in education. The approach is focused both on procedural aspects of the adoption of administrative act, in order to determine how the constitutional requirements have been met, but also on the substantive issues, that aim some of the legislative solutions which it enshrines. Among them, the article paid a special attention to the consecration, for the first time in the Romanian legislation, of the possibility that the holder of a scientific title can give up to it. In our opinion, the newly introduced rule has some weaknesses, both in terms of how it is written, but also on the legitimacy of the solution itself.
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Under Article 1541 (1) b) of the new Romanian Civil Code, among the conditions in which the court may reduce the quantum of the penalty is also the condition that the penalty should be clearly excessive in relation to the damage that could be provided by the parties upon the conclusion of the contract. This text of the new Romanian Civil Code, which entered into force on 1 October 2011, has generated a controversy, in the sense that, once the „clearly excessive” character of the penalty has been retained, the court shall be required to proceed to the reduction thereof or, on the contrary, it has only a faculty (possibility) to proceed as such. In the opinion of the author of the study, the second interpretation is the judicial one.
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In the Romanian doctrine, even if it is evoked the legal existence of the „right to a name”, most authors define it as if it were identical to the „name”. Likewise, some of its legal characters are just asserted, and others are logically and legally grounded in a questionable manner. In relation to this „situation”, this study is devoted to the argumentation and phrasing of a variant of „definition” for the „right to a name”, as well as to the „nuancing” of its legal characters.
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Din economia dispozițiilor art. 1349 din noul Cod civil reiese faptul că orice persoană are îndatorirea să respecte regulile de conduită pe care legea sau obiceiul locului le impune și să nu aducă atingere, prin acțiunile ori inacțiunile sale, drepturilor sau intereselor legitime ale altor persoane; cel care, având discernământ, încalcă această îndatorire răspunde de toate prejudiciile cauzate, fiind obligat să le repare integral. -
The current standards on the quality, the integrity and the non-disclosure of the professional secret in the interprofessional complementary activities of the Romanian judicial system represent, in the contemporary society, a concern to adjust to the permanently changing reality. The existence of some constants such as independence, competence, responsibility, but also honour, dignity and respect, in reality, receives new meanings, and their convergence is achieved only by way of a various communication. Creating some new modalities to ensure the common professional status is not an illusion, but a real need for the interprofessional dialogue to take place not only within a profession, but within more professions, for the purpose of ensuring the unity in the application of law.
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In the matter of conditions of application of the preventive arrest measure, as in the case of other institutions, the new Criminal Procedure Code contains new regulations and takes over, to a small extent, some provisions of the previous Criminal Procedure Code (of 1968). The new Criminal Procedure Code has regulated the preventive detention in a single modality: the detention of the defendant, namely of the person against whom the criminal action has been set in motion. In this study, the authors analyze the institution of preventive detention, with special reference to the conditions of application of this measure, by presenting some critical aspects and by proposing some improvements of the new regulation. Key
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At first sight, guilt appears as being one of the necessary conditions for engaging liability, which is quite easy to determine. In fact, in order to make such a statement it must be considered the structure of guilt, formed not only of the intellective and volitive factors that make up the complex psychological process which stands at the origin of the illicit activity, but also the imputation which can be brought to the agent for a conduct inconsistent with the rigours imposed by the legal order. By the analysis made, the author of this study has emphasized both the strengths, and the disadvantages of the criteria subjectively, objectively and even intermediately used for determining the civil guilt in concrete situations. Likewise, he has also dealt with the possibility of determining the criminal guilt in the light of the psychological and normative conceptions. At the same time, by expressing his options for some of these, the author has proposed some nuancings in order to obtain some results as precise as possible and, at the same time, fair for all parties involved.
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Both at Community level and at national level, there is the concern to allow the employees the possibility of a conciliation of the professional life with the private life, one of the measures regulated in this respect being the leave for raising a child, provided by the Government Emergency Ordinance No 111/2010. The exercise of this right can not be a reason to treat the employee differently or to affect his professional evolution, as the law guarantees the stability of the labour relation for the duration of the leave and subsequently, as well as the right to be reinstated to the same position or to an equivalent one. However, the national legislation also contains provisions which are lacking clarity, does not fully transpose the Community law in the field, so that it is required an improvement of this legislation and a greater flexibility in regulating of the situation of the labour relation for the duration of the leave for raising a child.
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Promoting a public „good governance” involves the rationalisation of the manner of functioning of the state and of the instruments used, among which there are those of a normative nature. The proliferation of legal rules – at national level, at European Union level and at international level – is today a general phenomenon, generating costs – legal, administrative, economic and others – more burdensome for the individual and for the entire society. The remedy for this situation is simplification, under its various aspects – administrative simplification, simplification of the legal language or of the legislative techniques –, an old method frequently used, however a new concept trying to stand out in the field of legal theory. The simplification of law as legal-administrative action has undergone various national and EU experiences. These have accredited a series of principles of conduct, have set targets to be attained and have promoted specific methods and techniques for achieving them.
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The right of the creditor to request the opening of the insolvency procedure is one of the modalities which the legislator has made available to the creditor in order to materialize his claim right held against his debtor. The opening of the insolvency procedure does not have the characteristic of a proper enforcement, whereas insolvency does not offer to the creditor the guarantee of actual satisfaction of the claim right held against the debtor. The creditor entitled to request the opening of the insolvency procedure must have held against its debtor a certain, liquid and exigible claim for more than 60 days, which shall have the minimum amount set by the law. This study intends to analyze the characters of the claim of a creditor entitled to request the opening of the insolvency procedure, respectively the certain, liquid and exigible character.
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In this study the author analyzes, on the one hand, the scope of application of the provisions of the Government Emergency Ordinance No 34/2014, and, on the other hand, the consumer rights in contracts concluded with professionals which fall within the scope of application of the mentioned Ordinance. We note that the Government Emergency Ordinance No 34/2014 on the consumer rights within contracts concluded with professionals transposes, into the Romanian legislation, the provisions of Directive 2011/83/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, published in the Official Journal of the European Union, L 304 of 22 November 2011.
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Juvenile deprivation of liberty is a controversial issue, in particular because the measure is in opposition to the educative goal of juvenile justice. Detention of children is a more acute problem. In Switzerland, although pre-trial – as well as administrative (immigration law) – detention of children under the age of 15 are prohibited, they are inappropriately decided by courts and authorities. The article describes the situation, its legal frame and has a critical look at such practice and decisions.
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The paper is based on the non-uniform practice of the courts within the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal Oradea, as well as from the country, referring to the following situations: the rejection of the proposal for preventive detention during the criminal prosecution; the rejection of the proposal for extension of preventive detention during criminal prosecution; the cessation de jure of the preventive measures; the revocation of preventive measures and the replacement of a preventive measure with other preventive measure. Within this paper the author deals with controversial aspects in the matter of judicial remedies concerning the preventive measures.
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Although the legal doctrine has been less concerned with this subject matter, there are some papers elaborated under the influence of the previous regulations, however, there are quite a few recent papers. In this article, the author makes an analysis of the offences of this special regulation, preferring a classical approach of the subject, the structure being as follows: 1) a brief history of regulations in the field of fishing and aquaculture; 2) the analysis of the offences in terms of constitutive elements, but having in view that some elements are common to all offences, such as, for example, the legal object; these are analyzed by groups, in order to avoid repetition; 3) a few elements of comparative law, by exemplification of some incriminations in the specific legislation of other States.
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As a systematic mean of exposing knowledge, in a specific and accessible form, the encyclopedia played an important scientific and cultural part, much amplified given the conditions of the age of internet. The encyclopedia of law offers important particularities, linked to its own tradition, the importance of the knowledge it offers and the extraordinary dynamics of the field. The project initiative of a Romanian Encyclopedia of Law answers a historical need, as a work of accomplishment and affirmation of the Romanian culture, in the context of the European and global cultural diversity. Moreover, it stands as an endeavour imposed by the new stage of development in Romanian law. After the finalization of the great legislative reform post-1989, by the adoption and entry into force of the major codes: civil and civil procedure, criminal and criminal procedure, legal doctrine needs a synthesis and conceptual abstraction specific to an encyclopedia.
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Pursuant to Article 914 of the new (Romanian) Civil Code „The owner of the estate recorded in the land register may request at any time the amendment of the mentions in the land register concerning the description, the destination or its surface, according to the law.” In reference to this text, in the case-law there is a controversy, whether, in the first instance, the jurisdiction ratione materiae lies with the court of first instance or with the tribunal. After examining this issue, the author comes to the conclusion that, de lege lata, presently the jurisdiction lies with the tribunal, according to the rule included in this Article 95 point 1 of the new Civil Procedure Code. Likewise, de lege ferenda, the author proposes that such cases fall within the jurisdiction of the court of first instance, having regard to their nature and their reduced complexity.
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The study raises for discussion the meaning of the phrase „independence of justice”, as well as „independence of the judicial authority” and of its constitutive elements, in relation to the „holder of the national sovereignty” and „his supreme representative”. Likewise, it is noted that the approaches in globo concerning the „independence of justice”, whether expressed in public or within the content of some normative acts, can sometimes intensify the process of „fetishism” of the „judicial authority”.
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The regulation of the dismissal of employees in the national legislations is carried out, as a rule, either in casuistic system, or conditioned by the existence of a justified reason, or without imposing the requirement of no reason. In Romania, the regulation of the dismissal has in view the cases strictly provided by the Labour Code and any other special laws. However, there are some states of the European Union, as well as on the North American, South American, African continent or on the Australian continent, where the possibility of dismissal without cause of employees is admitted. In the spirit of flexibilization of the labour relations, in this study it is deemed useful that the dismissal without cause of employees be regulated in Romania as well, as an exception from the casuistic dismissal, and only with application limited to certain categories of employees (those pursuing an intellectual activity and, particularly, those who hold management positions). In order to ensure adequate protection of employees, the dismissal without cause should be conditioned by the grant of longer periods of notice, that are superior to those in the common law, determined according to seniority of employees at that employer, and to the payment of some monetary compensation, also established depending on the seniority at that employer, following that these measures be strengthened by the sanction of nullity applied to the dismissal that does not comply with these conditions.
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The (Romanian) Labour Code (Law No 53/2003 – republished) regulates (Article 88 et seq.) the legal institution of labour law of the „temporary labour contract”, which has Directive 2008/104/EC of 19 November 2008 as „European” legal basis. In the legal literature of labour law from Romania a controversy has arisen, whether the „mission” performed under a „temporary labour contract” may be considered or not as secondment [within the meaning of Article 45 et seq. of the (Romanian) Labour Code]. The position of the author of this study is firm, in a negative way, and, as a result, the employee in question is not entitled to the special rights regulated for the employees on secondment provided by Article 46 (4) and Article 47 of the Labour Code.
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The current modality of regulating the institution of suspension can raise two categories of problems: on the one hand, problems of systematization of the matter, problems of qualification of the various cases of suspension as being of law, on the initiative of the employee, on the initiative of the employer or by the parties’ agreement, problems of drafting of suspension assumptions and problems of drafting of the regulation. On the other hand, the current regulation also creates difficulties of substance, which can lead to confusions and inconsistencies. Based on the consideration of the legislator’s option to group the different causes for suspension within the same chapter – otherwise a meritorious option –, this paper intends, however, to draft de lege ferenda proposals for the improvement of the regulation, both on the substance and in terms of form of the regulation.
