MISKOLCI EGYETEM

SUMMARY
This thesis examines contract types providing investment services.
The first part of the thesis presents how investment services developed in the
Hungarian legal system. The institution of the capital market and investment sector
developed in the transition period from the centrally planned economy to the market
economy, therefore I will also look at what impact the transition and the change of
the regime had on the regulation of contractual relationships. It will be followed by
the analysis of changes in rules concerning the subject, object and content of legal
relations of investment services between 1996 and 2007, that is, till the enactment of
the latest major Act.
The second part of the thesis attempts to identify the traditional contract types
in the deals of the capital market through their characteristic features.
In my view, in the legal rules of contracts providing investment services, you
can mainly identify the rules of agency contracts, consignment contracts and that of
bailment contracts, therefore these contract types will be subjected to a comparative
analysis. Through comparing the characteristics features of the obligation in
investment services and those of the contract types mentioned before, similarities and
differences will be defined.
Then applying the comparative method, investment services are clearly
distinguished from another major institution of the capital market, namely, the
investment funds.
Finally, I aim at positioning the contract of investment services in the system
of contracts. In order to achieve this goal, I will feature the most considerable views
concerning the classification of contracts: I present the most significant theories
related to the legal judgement of mixed contracts prevailing in the first half of the
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