Civil Code (Lithuania)

The Lithuanian Civil Code ( lit.Lietuvos Respublikos civilinis kodeksas, LR CK ) is the comprehensive Lithuanian private law codification and main source of Lithuanian civil and commercial law ( no separate Lithuanian commercial code has been adopted). The Lithuanian Civil Code replaced the previous model code of Soviet private law and consists of 6 books. Some legal norms were adopted from European law books (or legal systems such as France , the Netherlands , Germany ).

The law passed on July 18, 2000 (No. VIII-1864) is one of the more recent civil law codifications in Europe and replaces the Soviet Lithuanian Civil Code of 1964 ( Lietuvos TSR civilinis kodeksas ) and the Marriage and Family Code . It came into force on July 1, 2001 (some standards not until October 1, 2001 or July 1, 2003).

The new code has been prepared by private law scholars from the Faculty of Law at Vilnius University since 1995 . The working group was led by Valentinas Mikelėnas .

structure

1. First book. General rules ( Pirmoji knyga. Bendrosios nuostatos )
2. Second book. Persons ( Antroji knyga. Asmenys )
3. Third book. Family law ( Trečioji knyga. Šeimos teisė )
4. Fourth book. Property law ( Ketvirtoji knyga. Daiktinė teisė )
5. Fifth book. Inheritance law ( Penktoji knyga. Paveldėjimo teisė )
6. Sixth book. Law of Obligations ( Šeštoji knyga. Prievolių teisė ).

literature

• Vytautas Mizaras and Vytautas Nekrošius . The new civil and civil procedural law in Lithuania // Journal of European Private Law. Issue 3. 2002, pp. 466-488.
• Nekrošius V. Basic features of the reform of civil law in the Republic of Lithuania (with special consideration of property law) Civil law reform in the Baltic States . No. 161, 2006.
• Commentary on the Lithuanian Civil Code // Lietuvos Respublikos civilinio kodekso komentaras ( Valentinas Mikelėnas , Alfonsas Vileita, Algirdas Taminskas , Gintautas Bartkus , Vytautas Mizaras , Šarūnas Keserauskas and others). 2003, Justitia publishing house .

Web links

• Lithuanian version of the Code
• Juozas Galginaitis. Lithuanian private law. Basics of the new civil code. Part 1 ( Memento from January 3, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Institute for Eastern European Law of the Faculty of Law at Kiel University, 2003
• Juozas Galginaitis. Lithuanian private law. Basics of the new civil code. Part 2. Law of Obligations ( Memento from January 3, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Institute for Eastern European Law, CAU zu Kiel, 2003
• Introduction to legal Lithuanian koeblergerhard.de (doc; 49 kB)