OBCHODNÍ KORPORACE A SVÉPRÁVNOST

This article deals with commercial corporations and the legal capacity to act by their own juridical acts. The provisions of the previous Czech Civil Code stated that legal persons have legal capacity during their existence. A similar provision doesn’t exist in the new Civil Code. The important question is whether the legal person, i.e. a commercial corporation, has or doesn‘t have legal capacity and whether a member of its statutory body is in the position of a classic representative (agent) or not. The author concludes that we cannot use the legal institution of legal capacity and legal incapacity for commercial corporations. The next conclusion is that a member of the statutory body is a representative sui generis and we cannot apply legal provisions regarding common representation (agency) to him/her automatically, but only subsidiary in case that the application isn’t excluded by provisions relating to legal persons.