Stalking
01.12.2025 | Criminal law
Stalking Persistent Stalking according to § 107a StGB encompasses any prolonged, continuous influence on a person that is objectively capable of unreasonably impairing their way of life. The legislator thus …
Threat of Harm
28.11.2025 | Criminal law
Threat of Harm The dangerous threat according to § 107 StGB refers to any announcement of a significant harm that is objectively capable of instilling justified fear in an average …
Forced marriage
28.11.2025 | Criminal law
Forced marriage Forced marriage according to § 106a StGB exists if a person is forced into a marriage or registered partnership not of their own free will, but due to …
Aggravated Coercion
26.11.2025 | Criminal law
Aggravated Coercion Aggravated Coercion according to Section 106 of the Criminal Code applies if a person is forced by particularly intense violence or by a qualified threat to engage in …
Coercion
26.11.2025 | Criminal law
Coercion Coercion under Section 105 of the Criminal Code occurs when a person is compelled by force or dangerous threat to perform, omit, or tolerate an act. The focus is …
Human Trafficking
24.11.2025 | Criminal law
Human Trafficking Human trafficking according to § 104a StGB refers to the targeted exploitation of a person through recruitment, transportation, reception or transfer with the intention of exploitation. The perpetrator …
Slavery
24.11.2025 | Criminal law
Slavery Slavery under § 104 StGB exists when a person treats another like an object and deprives them of their personal freedom completely or largely. This refers to situations in …
Handing over to a Foreign Power
24.11.2025 | Criminal law
Handing over to a Foreign Power The handing over to a foreign power pursuant to Section 103 of the Criminal Code occurs when someone knowingly delivers a person protected in …
Extortionate Kidnapping
24.11.2025 | Criminal law
Extortionate Kidnapping Extortionate kidnapping pursuant to § 102 StGB is a particularly serious crime in which a person is deprived of their liberty or otherwise brought under the control of …
Deprivation of Liberty
24.11.2025 | Criminal law
Deprivation of Liberty Deprivation of liberty exists when a person’s physical freedom of movement is removed by detaining them against or without their will in a defined area or effectively …
Abduction of a Minor
24.11.2025 | Criminal law
Abduction of a Minor The abduction of a minor according to § 101 StGB constitutes a serious crime against personal liberty and the sexual integrity of minors. It covers the …
Abduction of a Mentally Ill or Defenseless Person
24.11.2025 | Criminal law
Abduction of a Mentally Ill or Defenseless Person The abduction of a mentally ill or defenseless person is a combined offense against liberty and sexual integrity. It protects persons who, …
Search of Locations, Objects, and Persons
24.11.2025 | Sports law
Search of Locations, Objects, and Persons The search of locations, objects, and persons pursuant to § 119 ff StPO is one of the central intervention measures in criminal proceedings. Its …
Omission to Render Assistance
24.11.2025 | Criminal law
Omission to Render Assistance Omission to render assistance according to § 95 StGB concerns situations where someone recognizes another person in immediate mortal danger, could render assistance, but deliberately refrains …
Abandonment of an Injured Person
24.11.2025 | Criminal law
Abandonment of an Injured Person Abandonment of an injured person according to § 94 StGB covers situations in which someone injures a person and then leaves them without the necessary …
Physical Examination
24.11.2025 | Criminal law
Physical Examination The physical examination pursuant to § 123 StPO is an important investigative tool in criminal procedural law. Its purpose is to ascertain traces, concealed objects, or physical characteristics …
Molecular Genetic Testing
24.11.2025 | Criminal law
Molecular Genetic Testing Molecular genetic testing pursuant to § 124 StPO The criminal police may independently investigate traces found at the crime scene, while the investigation of personal samples generally …
Action for Withdrawal of Management Authority
24.11.2025 | Corporate law
Action for Withdrawal of Management Authority The withdrawal of the management authority means that a shareholder is deprived of the right and the duty to make decisions for the company …
Action for Exclusion of a Shareholder
24.11.2025 | Corporate law
Action for Exclusion of a Shareholder The action for exclusion according to § 140 UGB enables the remaining shareholders of an OG or KG to continue the company if cooperation …
Affray
24.11.2025 | Criminal law
Affray Affray, as defined by § 91 of the Criminal Code, is a physical altercation involving mutual acts of violence, in which at least three persons are involved. Participation is …
Grossly Negligent Homicide
24.11.2025 | Criminal law
Grossly Negligent Homicide The grossly negligent homicide under § 81 StGB occurs when someone causes the death of another person through exceptionally and conspicuously negligent conduct. It is a qualified …
Negligent Homicide
24.11.2025 | Criminal law
Negligent Homicide Negligent homicide under Section 80 StGB occurs when someone causes the death of another person through carelessness, dereliction of duty, or lack of diligence, without intending to do …
Infanticide
24.11.2025 | Criminal law
Infanticide Infanticide according to § 79 StGB covers cases in which the mother kills her child during or immediately after the birth process. The law takes into account the mother’s …
Assisting in Suicide
24.11.2025 | Criminal law
Assisting in Suicide Assisting in suicide includes two forms of appearance. Firstly, the seduction. In this case, the decision to commit suicide is evoked or an already made decision is …
Killing on Request
24.11.2025 | Criminal law
Killing on Request Killing on request is regulated in § 77 StGB. It exists if someone kills another person at their explicit, serious, and insistent request. The crucial difference to …
Manslaughter
24.11.2025 | Criminal law
Manslaughter Manslaughter as per § 76 StGB exists if someone intentionally kills another person, but acts in a state of mind that is so intense or stressful that it decisively …
Murder
24.11.2025 | Criminal law
Murder Murder is the intentional killing of another human being. Protected are life and physical integrity. The offense requires a human act, the occurrence of death, and a causal connection …
Endangering Physical Safety
24.11.2025 | Criminal law
Endangering Physical Safety Endangering physical safety under § 89 StGB punishes conduct that creates a concrete danger to the life, health, or physical safety of another person. An injury is …
Negligent Bodily Harm
24.11.2025 | Criminal law
Negligent Bodily Harm Negligent bodily harm under § 88 StGB covers cases in which a person causes injury or damage to health through a breach of due diligence. The crucial …
Marital Home in Inheritance Law
24.11.2025 | Inheritance law
Marital Home in Inheritance Law After the death of a spouse, the question often arises as to whether the surviving spouse may remain in the previous home. Austrian inheritance law …
