Open AccessLegal and compulsory inheritance in Vojvodina between two world wars
Author(s) -
Jelena Vidić
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
zbornik matice srpske za društvene nauke/zbornik matice srpske za društvene nauke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0836
pISSN - 0352-5732
DOI - 10.2298/zmsdn0825079v
Subject(s) - inheritance (genetic algorithm) , settlor , law , appeal , conflict of laws , dowry , spouse , political science , sociology , genealogy , history , genetics , biology , gene
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