OPET, OTTO:

By: Isidore Singer

German legist; born in Berlin April 1, 1866. He was formerly privat-docent in Bern, Switzerland, and at present (1904) is judge and instructor in law at the University of Kiel. He has published the following works: "Die Erbrechtliche Stellung der Weiber in der Zeit der Volksrechte" (Berlin, 1888); "Gesch. der Prozesseinleitungsformen im Ordentlichen Deutschen Rechtsgang" (part i., ib. 1891); "Deutsches Theaterrecht" (ib. 1897); "Das Verwandtschaftsrecht des Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuchs" (ib. 1899); "Das Familienrecht" (part i., "Bürgerliche Ehe," ib. 1904; in "Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch").