European Law
How many countries are there in the European Union?
27
This principle ensures that individuals who act honestly in legal transactions are protected under civil law.
What is the principle of protecting good faith?)
This principle ensures that punishment is based on guilt, not mere suspicion.
What is the principle of fault?
An employee is entitled to a certain number of paid days off each year. What is this called?
What is annual leave?
This term refers to the legal right to own property outright, without limitations.
What is ownership (freehold)?
What is the name of the Polish politician who was the 24th President of the European Parliament?
Who is Jerzy Buzek?
In civil law, these relationships can involve property or non-property rights. One example is inheriting from deceased parents.
What are types of civil law relationships?
This principle means the law cannot be applied to acts committed before it came into force.
What is the principle of non-retroactivity of law?
After leaving a job, an employer must issue this document confirming employment details.
What is a work certificate?
This term refers to a legal right over movable property as security for a debt.
What is a pledge?
What is the name of the largest and the most populous country which joined the EU in 2004?
What is Poland?
Under civil law, this term refers to a person who cannot perform acts in law due to mental disorder or severe intellectual disability.
What is a fully incompetent person?
This term refers to the legal state when a person cannot be held criminally responsible due to mental disorder
What is incapacity?
This agreement prevents an employee from working for a competitor after leaving the company.
What is a non-competition agreement?
In Poland, land under apartment blocks often belongs to the State, but residents have a right to use it for 99 years. What is this right called?
What is permanent usufruct?
What is the name of the city in the Netherlands where the Treaty of the European Union was singned?
What is Maastricht?
This type of civil legal act involves three or more parties agreeing together—similar to when several film studios sign one contract to co-produce a blockbuster.
What is a multilateral act?
This term refers to removing criminal responsibility due to circumstances like self-defense or necessity.
What is exclusion of criminal responsibility?
How long after termination of employment in Poland does health insurance coverage continue, allowing you to use public healthcare?
What is 30 days?
Civil law distinguishes this group of rights from full ownership—they include usufruct, easement, pledge, and mortgage.
What are limited property rights?
I am defined by rights and duties under Union law.
I hold the freedom to move, work, and vote beyond my national border.
Granted by a Member State, yet recognized by all.
Who am I?
Who is a citizen?
I am signed before vows are spoken,
I set the rules if love is broken.
Property and rights I clearly define,
What am I, in legal design?
What is a premarital agreement?
I never pulled the trigger, yet blood was spilled.
A cult obeyed my twisted will.
My name became a symbol of dread,
Who am I, though I led and others bled?
Who was Charles Manson?
I arrives when your contract ends without notice,
Your duties cease, yet your rights persist.
Linked to age and contributions made,
I unlock benefits from the Social Insurance cascade.
What am I?
What is retirement?
I stand still, I cannot roam,
I’m land, a building, a permanent home.
You can own me, pledge me, or sell me with care,
But moving me? Don’t even dare.
What am I?
What is immovable property?