Impediments to marriage or "the facts restraining the contract of marriage".

Abstract

In a new Czechoslovak family law creation process the "impediments to marriage" represent one of the institutes to which a special attention was paid during the so called "Legal Two Year Plan" in 1948-1950. Until the adoption of a new Act No 265/1949 Coll. on family law the "impediments to marriage" had been regulated by adapted standards which have originated in the Austro-Hungarian
monarchy; the contents, framework and conception had became insufficient for the new ideological principles of family law. Particularly, the identification of marriage validity legal limitations by a term "impediments to marriage" was strictly denied in the act on family law. The collocation "the facts restraining the contract of marriage" have became more suitable and increasingly more used in a practice of law; however, the same content substance of "impediments" cannot be denied.