Czech Civil Code

Czech Civil Code
Ratified3 February 2012
Date effective1 January 2014

The Czech Civil Code (Act No. 89/2012 Coll., in Czech zákon č. 89/2012 Sb, Občanský zákoník or Nový občanský zákoník) was promulgated on 3 February 2012 and entered into force on 1 January 2014. This Code recodified Czech private law and replaced the previous Civil Code of 1964, enacted during the period of communist Czechoslovakia, which, in an amended form, still remains in force in Slovakia today. Alongside the Civil Code, the Business Corporations Act (zákon č. 90/2012 Sb., zákon o obchodních korporacích), codifying corporate law in the area of business corporations, and the Private International Law Act (zákon č. 91/2012 Sb., zákon o mezinárodním právu soukromém), codifying Czech law in the field of private international law, were also adopted. However, the principal legal regulation in the field of civil procedural law, the Code of Civil Procedure (zákon č. 99/1963 Sb., občanský soudní řád) of 1964, has remained in force.

The marriages concluded before a church authority are regulated in § 666 of the Czech Civil Code. The fact that the number 666 is connected with Satan in Christianity attracted attention.

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