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In Hungarian legal theory, practice and tort law regulation there seems to be a Chinese wall between administrative law regulation and civil law. This wall is built with the autonomous concept of unlawfulness and fault in tort law which are independent from administrative regulation. In Hungarian legal terminology, public law is the law governing the structure and activity of the state and state organizations,1 while administrative law is the law governing the organizing, decision-making and executive activity of state organs.2 There is not a generally accepted concept for regulatory law which is distinguished from public and administrative law.
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Hungarian tort law as a law in action is a flexible system where the decision of the court is a result of weighing different elements in each of the tort cases as it has been established by Walter Wilburg: W. Wilburg, Entwicklung eines beweglichen Systems im Bürgerlichen Recht (Rede gehalten bei der Inauguration als Rector magnificus der Karl-Franzens-Universität in Graz am 22. November 1950) (1950) and id., Zusammenspiel der Kräfte im Aufbau des Schuldrechts, Archiv für die civilistische Praxis (AcP) 163 (1963) 346 ff.
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Menyhárd, A. (2007). Tort and Regulatory Law in Hungary. In: van Boom, W.H., Lukas, M., Kissling, C. (eds) Tort and Regulatory Law. Tort and Insurance Law, vol 19. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-31134-9_8
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