The constitutional guarantee of the inheritance right and its specification in the law on the freedom of testament

The article is concerned to the constitutional right of inheritance and grounds of its limitation. The increasing interest to the institution is primarily due to the fact that there are cancelled earlier limitations on the number and types of property, which can be in ownership of citizens, and the property holdings that can be inherited is increasing accordingly. There is uncovered the principle of freedom of testament and the content of the right to a hereditary portion. The article author makes a conclu- sion that if to approach the testament with the moral-ethical viewpoint, it is a kind of guarantee of a human to those people who were close to it, irrespective of that they are its relatives or not. On the other hand, there is the recognition of the will of a human is an underlying factor in a democratic country