Testamentary Succession, New Technologies and Recodification: On the Research that Needs to Be Conducted

Societas Et Iurisprudentia 2014, volume II, issue 2

16 Pages Posted: 29 Aug 2014

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Mariusz Załucki

Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Kracow University

Date Written: August 1, 2014

Abstract

In view of the fact that one of the main tasks of modern inheritance law is to connect the available legal structures with the shape of property relations existing in the society and to favour solutions which enable to make the most of the testator’s estate after his or her death, the author concludes that a research needs to be conducted to examine what consequences in this field of law follow, inter alia, from the wide availability of audio and video digital recorders, and what are legal consequences of registering the last will of the testator using such equipment, e.g. if in such context, can we call a videotestament a newly developing form of estate disposition. In this scope projects should search for connections between the above-indicated technical equipment and the possibilities of fulfilling the last will of the testator, to analyze if they may be useful for applying the principle of testamentary freedom present in inheritance law and to explain if the application of such equipment by the testator will facilitate or hinder the execution of testator’s will mortis causa.

Keywords: inheritance law, succession law, will, testament, video will, electronic will

JEL Classification: K00, K11, K36

Suggested Citation

Załucki, Mariusz, Testamentary Succession, New Technologies and Recodification: On the Research that Needs to Be Conducted (August 1, 2014). Societas Et Iurisprudentia 2014, volume II, issue 2, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2488497 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2488497

Mariusz Załucki (Contact Author)

Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Kracow University ( email )

ul. Gustawa Herlinga Grudzińskiego 1
Kraków, 30-705
Poland

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