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After the rebirth of the Polish state in 1918 there were several post-partition criminal acts in force. Established in 1919, the Codifi cation Commission was to develop a uniform civil and criminal law. One of the tasks accomplished by the Commission was the substantive criminal law. The modern Code of 1932, developed among others by Julian Makarewicz, was one of the outstanding projects prepared...
The article presents the process of applying the Austrian matrimonial property law in Poland based on the example of the interwar notary practice in Krakow. The subject of the analysis are the marital property agreements, which, in accordance with the legal provisions of the time, were mandatory and took the form of a notary deed. Based on the content of those contracts, an attempt was made to answer...
Jubilee of Professor Jerzy Malec On 5th December 2012, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University witnessed the 40-year anniversary of scholarly work of prof. dr hab. Jerzy Malec, an outstanding Cracovian legal historian, Rector of the A.F.M. Krakow University, and a long-standing associate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University. The laudation was held by prof. dr...
The 9th National Symposium on Church-State Law “Churches and other religious organizations in the service of the common good,” Jagiellonian University, Krakow 17–20 May 2012 The host of the 9th National Symposium on Church-State Law combined with the Congress of Chairs and Lecturers on Church-State Law was the Department of Ecclesiastical Law and Law on Religious Denominations at the Faculty of Law...
Among the numerous interesting and remarkable topics of applied law related to the period between the two World Wars, this study focuses on a very special aspect of judicial practice of that time. It attempts to trace archaic standards, legal folk traditions, as refl ected by court decisions or brought up by the parties during the litigation process. Based on this approach, studies and case-studies...
Remarks on the book: Marek Krzymkowski Rada Stanu Księstwa Warszawskiego, Ars boni et aequi, Poznań 2011, s. 299 The State Council of the Duchy of Warsaw has been the subject of numerous analyses by various authors, including W. Sobocinski, H. Izdebski, and W. Witkowski, whose publications became part of the achievement of Polish scholarship. Given the current state of research, the task of providing...
The year 2012 was rich in publications on legal and constitutional history published by the staff of particular Chairs of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University. A selection of them will be listed below, along with some other achievements and scholarly events in which the scholars of the Faculty were engaged
Upper Lusatian villici: stewards, town iudices or territorial advocati?The text deals with the problem of the proper interpretation of the institution of villicus, mentioned in Upper Lusatia in the 1st half of the 13th century. The article discusses all the hitherto attempts to identify the actual nature of the Upper Lusatian villici and proposes some new interpretations. The close relations of those...
The article contains a brief overview of the main political parties of the Second Republic of Poland. It outlines the genesis of the most important groups operating in each of the partitions, showing the impact of the political activity of Poles in the occupant countries on the shape of Polish political scene in later years. A particular emphasis is placed on presenting the groups active during the...
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