LA SUCCESSIONE NEL DIRITTO CONTROVERSO. PREMESSE PER UNO STUDIO

The thesis concerns the transfer of interest pending action regulated by Article 111 of the Italian Code of civil procedure. The study, after a brief historical introduction, aims to explain the purpose of the mentioned rule, moving from the «ideal» perspective of its inexistence. The identification of the consequences which the process would have to face with, if its regulamentation hypothetically would have been entrused to the general principles, represents the premise to identify the affected interests if the Article 111 c.p.c. would not have been contemplated. The research unfolds to a digression about legitimatio ad causam with the attempt to explain the reason why the prevaling doctrine and jurisprudence states that the rule is provided to prevent the occurred lack of legitimatio. By distinguishing the cases of transfer by the claimant and by the defendant, the analysis leads to identify the function of the rule in the protection of the counterparty and the safeguard of procedural economy. The analysis focuses then on the way in which the protection of those interests is concretely realized, in toher words, it is focudes on the technique used in order to prevent that the interests of the counterparty were affected by the rejection of the claim. This theme is interwined with the problem of the object of the process after the transfer of the interest. On this respect the Relavanz and Irrelevanztheorie are examinated in order to establish which of the two possible alternatives better ensures the ratio of the rule. The last part of the thesis is dedicated to the analysis of one of the most controversial aspects, that is the breadth of assignor’s powers after the transfer. The attempt to offer a solution to the problem leads to distinguish according to the (less or more) dispositive attitude of each type of act (e.g. settlement, conciliation, confession, request of ex aequo et bono judgement), in compliance with the ratio and the position covered by the part called by the law «to continue» the process.