Scurte considerații asupra condițiilor speciale de valabilitate și asupra efectelor testamentelor privilegiate

Abstract

"This paper is focused on establishing the legal regime of privileged wills. First of all, we will analyse the probative value of this type of will and we shall demonstrate that it is justified to assign it the probative value specific to authentic deeds. Second of all, given that we are in the presence of an authentic deed, we shall extract all the specific requirements in regard to the simplified authentication procedure starting from the provisions of the Romanian Civil Code. These should be complemented by the general regulations in the field of authentic deeds as regulated by the Romanian Code of Civil Procedure, as well as with those compatible provisions regarding the authentication procedure applied by the public notary when authenticating wills. Subsequently, we will focus on the constrains regarding the incompatibility of the agent which manages the procedure and the requirements that must be met by the witnesses involved in the proceedings. Finally, we will undertake an analysis on the substantive conditions that privileged wills must meet and we will present the reasons why we agree with the opinion that supports the ability of the disposer to create a privileged will even if he could draw up a holographic will. Given the opportunity, we will also specify for how long the effects of a privileged will last in so far author could have also draw up a holographic will. Thus, we will demonstrate that the limited term whose fulfilment attracts expiration of the privileged will shall not start unless two cumulative conditions are met: the deceased is able to draw up a holographic will and the circumstance which allow him to draw up a privileged will have ceased to exist. On the contrary, it will be proven that the one who can address a public notary in order to create a will shall not be allowed to also create a valid privileged will."