Rights and Obligations of Co-Owners in the Joint Use of the Restituted Property

Abstract

My dissertation deals with the topic of co-ownership rights and obligations following the restitution of forests in Romania. The aim of the dissertation is to compare the Hungarian civil law before 1918 and the current Romanian civil law regulations in force in Transylvania before 1945, by attempting to find a solution to specific legal issues. I made the comparison on the basis of the work of Dr Bálint Kolosváry, a professor of law, who was a professor at the University of Law in Cluj-Napoca and then at the University of Pécs until 1921. For my research and to achieve my goal, I used the comparative method, literature review, and the method of studying legal cases. The focus of my case study is on a specific legal case, which I will summarize in my dissertation in the section dedicated to the details relevant to the subject of the analysis. In the course of my research, I came to the conclusion that according to the current legislation, a minority co-owner is in a more favourable position compared to Hungarian private law rules that were once in force.