New rules for old wood-burning stoves
In December 2020, the Danish Parliament passed a new law that requires all properties taken over on or after April 1, 2021, to replace the wood-burning stove. The rule applies if the wood-burning stove was produced before January 1, 2003. The replacement must take place within one year of the date of takeover. In future, it will be necessary to inform the owner when changing ownership whether there is a wood-burning stove on the property, […]
Rights and obligations
What is a duty? A duty is an action that you are required to perform by law or agreement. The legislation sets out a number of duties that you, as a resident of Denmark, are obliged to comply with. Examples of duties in the legislation include Conscription (obligation to do military service) Parental responsibility The Traffic Act (obligation to follow certain rules in traffic) […]
Self-meetings – risk as self-meetings
Being a self-meeting (meeting without a lawyer) in a court case is not without risk. In a recent case at the Western High Court, one of the questions was whether the Housing Court had been entitled to refuse to hear a case about the amount of rent on the grounds that the plaintiff had not made a correct claim. The case was that the Rent Board […]
How old do you have to be to become a minister?
I have asked this question to many people, and no one has yet given the correct answer. Most people answer 18 years, while some say 21 years. But the answer is completely different. Section 3 of the Constitution divides state power into three parts. The Folketing is the legislative power. The government – and thus the ministers – is the executive […]
Power of Attorney and Will. What's the difference?
Whereas a will regulates how your assets and possibly specific possessions are to be distributed after you pass away, an advanced power of attorney is more of the opposite. An advanced power of attorney can only be activated while you are alive, and only if you are no longer conscious or if you are no longer able to make decisions. […]
Who owns the rights to your website?
Most companies, many associations and some private individuals leave the construction of their websites to professional companies. There is nothing wrong with this. However, one should be careful with whom one enters into an agreement with and what agreements one accepts when entering into the agreement. In a specific example, a company had entered into […]
New cookies guidelines and rules on websites
It has become commonplace for everyone who uses the internet to be greeted with a pop-up box about cookies every time you enter a new website, regardless of whether you are trying to order clothes online or searching for legal advice, etc. The pop-up box usually contains the wording: "By clicking continue, you simultaneously accept [...]
The validity of the seller's financing reservation
Paragraf Advokaterne won a case on 20 December 2019 for a seller regarding the validity of the seller's financing clause in a purchase agreement. The case concerned a property on Djursland, which was put up for sale by a local real estate agent. A purchase agreement was signed with a buyer, which was, among other things, conditional on the purchase agreement being approved by the seller's bank […]
Expiration and limitation of liens on real estate
Many companies and individuals have become familiar with the rules on the statute of limitations for monetary claims, but fewer know about the rules on the statute of limitations for garnishments. The statute of limitations is, as the name suggests, a law that regulates when a creditor can forfeit his claim against a debtor, simply because too much time has passed since the claim was established. There […]
Right of retention – When may the creditor retain the debtor's property?
A recurring question when working with debt collection is when the creditor may exercise a lien on the debtor's property until payment is made. As always, there is a general rule and some exceptions for when the customer's property may be kept. The question is most often relevant for car repair shops and similar, but it actually applies to all transactions. The general rule about […]
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