Urážka prezidenta republiky v meziválečném období
Defamation of the President of the Republic in the Interwar Period

Author(s): Daniel Kadlec
Subject(s): History of Law, Criminal Law, Governance, Politics and law, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Czech Republic; interwar period; president; defamation;
Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the § 11 of the Act of the Protection of the Republic, which in the interwar period regulated the criminal offence of the Defamation of President of the Republic. The article discusses the origin and historical sequence of the crime of the Defamation of the Head of State. In the article, the author explains, with the help of case law, some terms from the text of § 11 of the Act of the Protection of the Republic, as well as the meaning of individual paragraphs or facts as a whole. In the article author presents a few very specific cases he found in the collections of the Moravian Provincial Archive.

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