Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs 1 / 2018, pp. 81-101, 2018/06/05
There are three significant breakpoints concerning the development of the institution of common acquisitions in Hungary. In the drafts of the first Private Law Code (1900–1928) the so called community of acquisitions appeared as a statutory matrimonial property regime, but with a new dogmatic concept in contradiction to traditional customary law: this new concept corresponded with participation in acquisitions. The Family Law Code of 1952 returned to the traditional concept but with a new name, and finally the Civil Code of 2013 retained the (only and indispensable) property system of the Family Law Code but allowed choosing participation of acquisitions as a contractual regime. The changes in the definition of common acquisitions resulted in a special terminology in Hungarian matrimonial property law up to the present.
Keywords: Austrian law in Hungary – codification – Hungarian legal history – matrimonial property law
