!!!Allgemeines Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, ABGB

Allgemeines Buergerliches Gesetzbuch (General Austrian Civil Code of 
Law, ABGB), Austrian codification of civil law, announced June 1, 
1811, went into effect for the entire German-speaking realm of the 
Austro-Hungarian Empire on January 1, 1812; taken over by the Republic 
of Austria in 1918, has also applied in Burgenland since 1922. 
Preliminary work toward a "Codex universalis" had already begun in 
1753 under Maria Theresia ( Codex Theresianus), intermediary works 
leading to the ABGB were the  Josephinisches Gesetzbuch and the West 
Galician Code; F. von Zeiler can be regarded as the ABGB's most 
important editor. The ABGB originated from the ideas of the 
Enlightenment and natural rights; it principally postulates the 
equality and freedom of the individual without completely abolishing 
the old feudalist order of the estates. In the long course of its 
application in Austrian law, it has been amended frequently (e.g. 
1914-1916 in 3 partial amendments and in the 1970s' reform of family 
law). Although important areas are governed by special laws outside of 
the ABGB (e.g. domicile law, industrial law, parts of marital law), it 
is still seen as the crystallisation point of Austrian civil law and 
the study thereof.

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Editions: Manzsche Taschengesetzesausgabe, %%sup 16/%1991; 
P. Rummel, Kommentar zum ABGB, 2 vols., %%sup 2/%1990/1992.


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