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Comparative Succession Law$
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Kenneth G C Reid, Marius J. de Waal, and Reinhard Zimmermann

Print publication date: 2011

Print ISBN-13: 9780199696802

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2012

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199696802.001.0001

Testamentary Formalities in Hungary

Chapter:
(p. 254 ) 10 Testamentary Formalities in Hungary
Source:
Comparative Succession Law
Author(s):

Lajos Vékás

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199696802.003.0010

Hungarian private law — in line with an international trend — has slowly been relaxing the formal requirements relating to wills. This was already noticeable in the comprehensive regulations of 1876, and even more so when the Civil Code entered into force in 1960. This chapter begins with discussions of freedom of testation and testamentary formalities, and the incidence of testate successions. It then covers common requirements for wills, private wills, public wills, oral wills for emergency situations, and legal consequences of formal mistakes.

Keywords:   Hungarian law, testamentary forms, private wills, public wills, oral wills, testation, testate successions

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