La codificación del derecho privado (derecho civil y derecho comercial) en Hungría y el nuevo Código Civil húngaro del 2013

Abstract

[Resumen] El presente estudio pretende ofrecer un panorama sobre las diversas etapas de la codificación del Derecho privado (Derecho civil y Derecho comercial) en Hungría, así como de las características del (segundo) Código Civil Húngaro del 2013[Abstract] The first part of the paper is dealing with the historical development of the codification of private law (both civil law and commercial law) in Hungary. The author points out the influence of Roman law and the German Pandectist legal science on the different drafts of the Hungarian civil code. The drafters of the Hungarian civil code took into account the French Civil Code, the Swiss Code of Obligations, the German Civil Code and the Swiss Civil Code. In the second part of the study the author describes the characteristic features of the first Hungarian Civil Code promulgated in 1959. Regarding the second Hungarian Civil Code adopted in 2013, the author emphasizes that the drafters succeeded in bringing it into compliance with the current trends of civil law related codification in the European Union (EU) in relation both to its structure and its basic concept (concept moniste).