Anerkenntnis und Anerkenntnisurteil im Zivilprozess

In German civil procedure, the defendant can accept the legal claim made by the plaintiff, forcing the court to rule in accordance with that claim – without assessing the matter in dispute. Thomas Alexander Heiß examines the mechanism which makes this possible and describes the acknowledgement, its prerequisities and the limits of its impact based on the private autonomy established in substantive civil law.