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Die Bedeutung des österreichischen Gesetzes über den Versicherungsvertrag aus dem Jahre 1917
The importance of the Austrian Law on Insurance Contracts in 1917

Author(s): Karel Schelle
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: STS Science Centre Ltd
Keywords: Austria; Czechoslovakia; insurance system; insurance contract; liability

Summary/Abstract: The 1917 Insurance Contract Act was an important milestone in the development of enactments in the field of liability in insurance system. However, the whole act never became effective. Above all, enactments dealing with special types of insurances have not come into force for a long time. Though, the Insurance Contract Act was indisputably important. In the period of the First Czechoslovak Republic it became the main condition of a new reform, which consisted in a new 1934 Insurance Act.

  • Issue Year: 2/2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 175-180
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: German
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