Znovuzavedenie inštitútu odkazu do slovenského právneho poriadku v rámci rekodifikácie súkromného práva.

Abstract. The paper will present the historical instrument of inheritance law the legacy and deals with its development from the oldest Roman law, through legal development in our territory, to the valid law of the surrounding countries. Subsequently, it will point out its characteristic features and the possibilities of its use in the present, which the legacy brings with it in terms of substantive law as well as procedural law. The author analyzes the role of legacy in the system of inheritance law through its functions and the historical development of inheritance law in our territory. Afterwards the author compares how the legacy strengthens the contractual freedom of the testator, but at the same time threatens the principle of family solidarity and greatly complicates the entire legal system of inheritance law. This paper will point out the application weaknesses of legacies and discuss the problems that may arise in the event that the legal system does not have a limit of the maximum possible amount of legacies and thus does not know the institute of the quarta falcidia. The presented paper does not offer the results of de lege ferenda, it critically summarizes whether the legacy should be part of the new legal regulation of inheritance law in Slovakia, and in which cases the reintroduction of legacy would really strengthen the status and true will of the testator.