Historical development of heirdom rights, belonging to surviving consort. The legal settlement of his rights, including author and neighboring rights. The civil law is giving rights, besides the relatives of the deceased, to the surviving consort. Surviving consort’s heirdom rights legal settlement had a „sinuous” settlement in time. This is due to the fact that the Civil Code gives title to inheritance only to the blood relatives of the late in order to keep the deceased’s patrimony in the frame of the same family.