István Teleszky's draft law of the inheritance law, with special reference to the settlement of legal succession

Abstract

In Hungary, following the Austro-Hungarian Compromise the government saw the time coming for creating a general civil code, within the framework of which in 1873, Pauler Tivadar Minister of Justice asked Teleszky István state secretary of the Ministry of Justice, to prepare the draft law of the inheritance law of the future Hungarian private law code. Teleszky prepared his work in accordance with the direction of the European legal development on high quality, which, though widely supported, never did enter force.