LEGAL AND COMPULSORY INHERITANCE IN VOJVODINA BETWEEN TWO WORLD WARS Cover Image

ЗАКОНСКО И НУЖНО НАСЛЕЂИВАЊЕ У ВОЈВОДИНИ ИЗМЕЂУ ДВА СВЕТСКА РАТА
LEGAL AND COMPULSORY INHERITANCE IN VOJVODINA BETWEEN TWO WORLD WARS

Author(s): Jelena Vidić
Subject(s): Geography, Regional studies, History of Law, Civil Law, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Матица српска
Keywords: legal inheritance; necessarily inheritance; inheritance line; hereditary part; yield enjoyment; relatives; spouse;

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes dispositive and imperative (compulsory) legal inheritance in the private law in Vojvodina between the two world wars putting a focus on its basic characteristics which had made it quite different from other provincial laws valid at the time. These characteristics were demonstrated in the foundation of legal inheritance in the parental linear system of grouping relatives. Within this system there were limitless possibilities for the testator's relatives to appeal to inheritance, as well as the equality of sexes in inheritance. As for the inheritance of acquired goods, it was based on the equality of the male and female lines or a particular hereditary position of the spouse and finally on different arrangements of inheritance depending on whether the issue was inherited goods or acquired goods, which was the most prominent particularity of the Vojvodinian law at the time. Besides, the paper singles out differences which can be seen in connection with legal and imperative inheritance which existed in the private law of Vojvodina between the two world wars in comparison with legal and imperative inheritance which existed in the positive hereditary law of Serbia. The conclusion is that, besides the listed characteristics, some solutions, legal institutions and general characteristics of Vojvodinian law still exist to a certain extent in the current legal hereditary system of Serbia.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 125
  • Page Range: 79-108
  • Page Count: 30
  • Language: Serbian