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• The impact of inflation on private law relationships

  45-72

  Tibor Kiss

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  204

  Not for decades have we seen price rises in Hungary, or in Europe and the world in general, such as those faced by the developed world in 2022. Inflation in Hungary was 24.5% in December 2022 and in January 2023, the indicator stood at 25.7%. This article provides a summary of the key concepts related to inflation, going beyond a definitional approach to inflation to cover its types and the most important principles and methods of measuring it. Economic foundations fundamentally determine private legal relations and legal institutions. In such a situation, crisis legislation is triggered, primarily in areas that have the greatest impact on the functioning of the economy and on consumers' daily lives. The present article reviews those important civil law structures and the rules governing them in the Civil Code and other statutory and governmental regulations, the content of which is justified to be amended in a persistent inflationary environment, but which have not been the focus of the legislator so far, emphasizing the need to adapt private law norms to the changed economic environment. The article examines those legal acts in which the legislator has set out in the text of the act data referring to value or price, nominally defining and quantifying in concrete terms the price or value that plays a significant role in a given private legal relationship. This type of legislation, however, does not take into account the changes in value relations at all, so that in an inflationary environment, the price and value figures nominally fixed in the private law norm are not adapted to economic processes, i.e. they are not in line with the current price level determined by economic fundamentals. The author outlines proposals and regulatory techniques for amending the law to adapt these legal provisions to the changed price and value conditions.

• Criminal Legislation against Bribery in the People’s Republic of China: Formation, Evolution and Evaluation

  Xiaoping Qian

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  72

  A Kínai Népköztársaság 1949 októberi megalakulásától kezdődően a modern büntető jogalkotás fejlődése a vesztegetéssel kapcsolatosan hosszú fejlődésen ment keresztül a jelenlegi antikorrupciós rendszerig.

  Amiatt, hogy szoros kapcsolat van a vesztegetési bűncselekmények és a gazdasági modell között, a gazdasági rendszer változása különböző büntetőjogi válaszokat igényel a vesztegetéssel kapcsolatban is.

  A tervgazdaság időszakában teljesen más a vesztegetések természete, mint az átmenet és a piacgazdaság alatt.

  A tanulmány a büntető jogszabályok változását mutatja be gazdasági, társadalmi környezet változásainak összefüggésében napjainkig a lehetséges továbbfejlődés ismertetésével. Ennek során nemzetközi szerződések hivatkozásával még tágabb összefüggéseiben mutatja be a kérdéskört, miközben olyan kérdések is felmerülnek, mint a halálbüntetés lehetősége.

• The Appearance, Development, and Reception of Danger to Society in Hungarian Criminal Law

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  Ádám Szemán

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  153

  The concept of danger to society is perhaps the most controversial element of the Criminal Code's definition of crime. This concept plays a prominent role in the determination of criminal liability in domestic criminal law. In the 20th century, its necessity in our Criminal Code, which was in force at the time, was the subject of debate among jurists of repute in the field of criminal law.

  In the socialist criminal law of the pre-communist era, the concept of danger to society was used to express the 'class nature' of criminal law. After the 1990s, this concept - in the science of criminal law, in legislation and in the application of law as well - was cleared of the content elements adopted from Soviet law to serve the aims of party-state policy. Nowadays, the definition of danger to society is so devoid of ideological, party-political connotations that it is regarded by a significant number of legal scholars in the field of criminal law and even by case law as the conceptual equivalent of material illegality, taken from German legal theory (ÚJVÁRI, 2003).

  In this paper, I will present the emergence and reception of the concept of danger to society in Hungarian criminal law and criminal jurisprudence, from the preceding period – which applied formal illegality – to the Criminal Code of legal force. 

• Civil law dogmatic deficiencies and legislative hiatuses in a private law legislation: Short case study

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  Tibor Kiss

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  81

  Based on the Government Decree 383/2023 (VIII.14.) on the ministerial approval of lease contracts of companies directly or indirectly majority-owned by the state, the article presents a case study showing that the legislation suffers from numerous "legal errors" that violate the provisions of the Legislation Act and is not in line with the fundamental doctrinal principles of civil law. The case study describes in detail the provisions of Act CXXX of 2010 on Legislation that the Government Decree does not comply with and shows how imprecise wording leads to problems of interpretation. The paper points out the private law terminus technicus which the legislator did not apply correctly (the party of the lease contract, consideration, invalidity - ineffectiveness) and the author proposes to correct the errors and to clarify certain normative provisions.