‘Judicial mind’ in operation, considered differently in Civil Law and in Common Law, is taken as a ‘black-box’ with the ‘magic’ role played by legal technicalities, in which manipulation with facts and rules transubstantiates problem solving into justification.

In the present article the last third of Karel Burian’s career is discussed, not only because it is perhaps a less known period of Burian’s biography, but also because it is closely connected with Hungarian culture. In these years he appeared in Budapest as a regular guest of the Royal Hungarian Opera mainly as a Wagner singer but also in French, Italian and Hungarian operas, and celebrated his thirty-year jubilee as an opera singer also in Budapest. After a chronological overview, (...) certain special aspects of Burian’s Hungarian activity are examined, e. g. his Hungarian naturalization and the political context of his appearances at the end of the First World War. (shrink)