Die cessio legis

Katharina von Koppenfels-Spies studies the assignment by operation of law in sections 774 and 1607 subsection 2 of the German Civil Code, the cessio legis in section 67 of the Insurance Contract Law as well as section 116 of the Code of Social Law, Book 10, and section 6 of the German law concerning continued payment of wages during the illness of an employee. Using an analysis of these regulations, the author deals with the impression that the recourse in cessio legis does not have a definite structure or system and that there is legislative arbitrariness and randomness in regard to the order of cessiones legis, due perhaps to the varying contexts or diverse legal regulations. She thus provides a contribution to the establishment of a structure and a system for the cessio legis and a system of recourse at the same time as well.