This article describes the origin, content and consequences of the treaty of Munich of 8th October 1619. This treaty was concluded between Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and the Bavarian Duke Maximilian I. Under this agreement, Bavaria helped reactivatethe Catholic League, which provid...

The author, judge of the Metropolitan Church Court of the Archdiocese of Prague, points out some controversial or not completely transparent points in the legal regulation of the ecclesial court judgment (incipit, citation of case law, mandatory/recommended data in passages in jure ...

The article deals with the history of the oldest association of the Czech advocates in the period of the first Czechoslovak republic. This association has been created in the end of the 19th century, its first members were the advocates of the Czech nationality in the...

This paper examines the relation of canon law and culture in three meanings analogous to the division outlined by Viktor Knapp in his Theory of Law. Thus, the paper deals with canon law as part of the continental legal culture (legal style), then with the culture of&...

This article discusses the cause which had Count Franz Anton Sporck (1662 – 1738) with his own lawyer Wenzel Xaver Neumann of Puchholtz. He accused Sporck of preparing contract killing on his person. The dispute dragged thirty years and the Count was eventually forced to ...

The article deals with the history of the oldest association of the Czech advocates in the period of the first Czechoslovak republic. This association has been created in the end of the 19th century, its first members were the advocates of the Czech nationality in the...