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Adoption in Austrian and Hungarian Private Law in the Bourgeois Era

Abstract

The main aim of this study is to introduce the reasons and conditions of the adoption, comparing the Austrian and Hungarian law. This study takes as a basis the Austrian civil code of 1811, the Hungarian statute of tutelage of 1877, the Draft of the Hungarian private law code of 1928 and archived documents between 1872 and 1910.