7) Legal Facts

Learning outcomes:
- Students define the concept of legal facts and explain their role in creating, modifying, or extinguishing rights and duties.
- Students classify legal facts into those based on the will of a natural person and those independent of it.
- Students identify essential elements for the existence and validity of a legal act, including will, manifestation, and object.
- Students interpret principles governing contracts, such as consensus and pacta sunt servanda.
- Students discuss the significance of time as a legal fact.
- Students evaluate the effects of statutory limitation and prescription on rights and obligations in civil law.

Relevant provisions of Czech Civil Code: 
Sects. 545-654

Case law: 
CZ: CC Case No II. ÚS 635/09
CZ: CC Case No II. ÚS 158/99
CZ: CC Case No III. ÚS 21/02
CZ: CC Case No IV. ÚS 2766/15
CZ: SC Case No 30 Cdo 2585/2007
CZ: SC Case No 21 Cdo 1965/2024
CZ: SC Case No 22 Cdo 1491/2019
CZ: SC Case No 27 Cdo 3955/2017

Sources:
Bar, C. von, Clive, E. a kol. Principles, Definitions and Model Rules of European Private Law. Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR). Full Edition. Volume 1. München: Sellier, European law publishers, 2009, pp. 108–137.
Frinta, O. Private Law in the Czech Republic – Development, Presence and Prospects, In Moon, J.; Tomášek, M. et al. Law Crossing Eurasia. From Korea to the Czech Republic. Passau-Berlin-Prague: rw&w, 2015, pp. 63-89.
The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts 2004 In: Comparative Perspective. Tulane European and Civil Law Forum, 2006, s. 1–33.