Mental Disorder as a Ground for Divorce in the Czechoslovak Marriage Amendment and Comparison to Hungarian Law

Ingrid  Lanczová

Mental Disorder as a Ground for Divorce in the Czechoslovak Marriage Amendment and Comparison to Hungarian Law

Publication date: 30.06.2022

Cracow Studies of Constitutional and Legal History, Volume 15 (2022), Volume 15, Issue 2, pp. 339-352

https://doi.org/10.4467/20844131KS.22.023.15726

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Mental Disorder as a Ground for Divorce in the Czechoslovak Marriage Amendment and Comparison to Hungarian Law

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The author reviews mental disorder as a ground for divorce in the Czechoslovak Act No. 320 of 1919 Coll. This Act was called the Marriage Amendment and was in effect for the Czech countries until 1950. The author considers the wording of the Act itself, the explanatory report, jurisprudence, and the court practice. The author compares it to the Hungarian marriage law that continued to be effective in Slovakia until 1950. It was Act No. XXXI of 1894 (the so-called Marriage Act), which regulated divorces in Slovakia, despite adopting the Czechoslovak Marriage Amendment. The Hungarian Marriage Act did not recognise mental illness as a ground for divorce. However, it was a controversial topic in both legal environments, the Hungarian and Czechoslovak.

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mental disorder, mental illness, divorce, Czechoslovak law, Hungarian law, Act No. 320 of 1919 Coll. (the Marriage Amendment), Act No. XXXI of 1894 (the Marriage Act)

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Information: Cracow Studies of Constitutional and Legal History, Volume 15 (2022), Volume 15, Issue 2, pp. 339-352

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/20844131KS.22.023.15726

Article type: Original article

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Ingrid Lanczová

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2767-3558

Trnava University in Trnava
Hornopotočná 23, 918 43 Trnava, Słowacja, Slovakia

Published at: 30.06.2022

Article status: Open

Licence: CC BY-NC-ND

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The project ‘Continuity and Discontinuity of Pre-war Legal Systems in Post-war Successor States (1918–1939)’ is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe. Visegrad Grant No. 22030159.

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