The purpose of the article is to present codification of private international law in Argentina. The introductory remarks contain an overview of international private law codification in Latin American countries. Then the Civil Code of Argentina from 1869 with an outline of its international private law regulations is described. Subsequently regional and international trends in codification of private international law are presented. The international conventions and treaties signed by Argentina are enumerated. Next there is an overview of draft laws containing regulation of private international law in Argentina (1974-2003). These observations are followed by general description of the Argentinean Civil and Commercial Code from 2014. The analysis of its selected international private law regulations is conducted. The article includes comparative remarks.
The article attempts to summarise the process of codifying the Ukrainian language in the first half of the 19th century. It covers the most important reference grammars of that time, presenting them in the context of the sociopolitical situation of a Ukraine divided between the Austrian and Russian Empires. The article describes the work of linguists and researchers who emphasized the autonomy of the language spoken in the Ukraine in contrary to the common trend which treated this ethnolect as a dialect of Polish or Russian. The presented reference grammars are a rich source of information about the Ukrainian language itself (including its regional varieties), as well as other forms of communication used at the beginning of the 19th century, such as iazychie. These works were a milestone towards the forming of the modern Ukrainian language and nation.
The “natural law” movement provoked some discussions on the method of interpretation of law within the European legal thought. Diverse methodological approaches referring to some social, historical, and multidimensional aspects and foundations of law were developed by French and German legal scholarship at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The present article focuses on the main scientific positions on the method of interpretation of law present in French jurisprudence. Since the beginning of the 19th century, French legal studies were dominated by the positivist school of exegesis. Scholarship and legal practitioners sought the opportunity to rebuild their authority. It was accompanied by the attempts to prepare a new theoretical ground for the legal order. Then, some representatives of a new trend in scientific research considered pluralism of the methods applied in legal research. Raymond Saleilles postulated the need for the evolutionary perspective in legal science. This approach appears to be similar to the concept of the law of nature with variable content adopted by Rudolf Stammler in Germany. Since the last two decades of the 19th century, François Gény, the supporter of a greater flexibility in interpretation of a legal text, developed libre recherche scientifique. He questioned the idea of autonomy of the legal science, calling for its integration with other disciplines.
System wersalki, jaki zapanował po I wojnie światowej spowodował wielkie zmiany geopolityczne w Europie. Wiele państw europejskich (Austria, Czechosłowacja, Jugosławia, Niemcy, Węgry, Polska, Rumunia) stanęło przed problemem unifikacji i kodyfikacji systemów prawnych. W celu ujednolicenia czechosłowackich i polskich systemów prawnych powstały Departament unifikacji w Czechosłowacji i Komisja Kodyfikacyjna w Polsce. Departament unifikacji był organem politycznym z minimalnymi kompetencjami (rewizja rozwiązań austriackiego kodeksu cywilnego została przeprowadzona przez Departament Sprawiedliwości). W przeciwieństwie do Departamentu Komisja Kodyfikacyjna była organem niezależnym i apolitycznym. Składała uczonych akademickich i praktyków prawa. Proces unifikacji i kodyfikacji prawa prywatnego w obu państwach przebiegał inaczej przegląd. W Czechosłowacji przeprowadzono tylko rewizję austriackiego kodeksu cywilnego oraz innych przepisów austriackich. Natomiast w Polsce podjęto decyzję o stworzeniu własnego, rodzimego prawa cywilnego od podstaw. Efekty procesu kodyfikacji prawa prywatnego w Polsce były większe. Opracowano kodeks handlowy, kodeks zobowiązań oraz kodeks postępowania cywilnego. Dalsze prace w zakresie prawa cywilnego zostały przerwane na skutek wybuchu II wojny światowej.
This publication presents the profile of Eugen Huber, distinguished Swiss lawyer. He is considered to be a creator of Swiss Civil Code. At the beginning the article introduces his biography in which particular emphasis is put on the course of his education and career. The elaboration presents research works of Eugen Huber and his significant influence on codification of Swiss civil law process. At the end Polish reader can get to know ideas about the principles of legislative procedure and an influence which Eugen Huber proposals exerted on the other legals orders.
The published text is the voice in the discussion referring to the codification of Polish Private Law. Particularly author emphasizes a good quality of law is an extremely important component of democracy law state. In an author’s opinion works on possibile codification of Private Law can not be entrusted exclusively to not numerous group of scholars but shall be conducted in the framework of possibly extensive community dialogue. Then the revision of Private Law should be proceded by the highest consideration and carefulness
During the reign of Sigismund I the Old relations between gentry and clergy were visibly tense. The main source of the conflict was the issue of a state reform suggested by chivalry. Crystalizing in the first half of the XVI century, execution movement program considerably infringed clergy’s legal and economic privileges. The reform program proposed by gentry pertained to several social, religious, economic and legal issues. In all these spheres the Church and chivalry differed in opinions, which resulted in a complicated confrontation and impossibility of working out of consensus. The fact that the compromise could not be reached made both sides act even more vigorously, insisting on fulfillment of all their demands. In the fight against the Senate and Monarchy, members of the Chamber of Deputies were still more and more convinced of their increasing power. Thus, still more boldly and unanimously, they defended rights of chivalry and demanded extension of privileges on expense of clergy and the mighty. However, gentry was able neither to impose permanent taxes on the Church nor devoid clergy of remaining the only authority in deciding on issues concerning the faith. Undoubtedly, due to unhesitant position of the Polish Episcopate and support of Sigismund I the Old, clergy managed to retain their political and economic privileges, although political privileges were considerably undermined during the reign of Sigismund Augustus.
The article is a continuation of the author’s research, carried out for a few years now, into the criminal law doctrine in Poland in the late 18th century. Drawing on his meticulous study of the sources and competent analysis of the literature on the subject, the author tries to fill the existing gap in the study of criminal law of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth towards the end of its existence as a sovereign state. In this particular case the author explores criminal law proposals of the Great Sejm legislators concerning the regulation of political crimes in the criminal code.
Basic novelties in the civil proceeding in the Polish People’s Republic of a socialist nature appeared in the act from 20 July 1950 changing the code of the civil proceeding from 1932. Changes of the pre-war code of the civil proceeding (1932) concerned four areas of issues: the system of appeal means, the rule of the material truth and the rule of prosecutor’s availability and participation in the civil proceeding. In justification to the amendment of the regulations on the civil proceeding (1950) the Russian models were directly referred to. The works on a new code of the civil proceeding started at the end of 1951. Regulations of the future code of the civil proceeding were to be based on socialist rules while a direct model was to be a Czech-Slovak code of the civil proceeding from 1950. It was until September 1952, namely the time allotted to the submission of a new socialist code of the civil proceeding to the Presidium of the Government that just its general part was designed. The first project of a new code of the civil proceeding was finally prepared in 1955. In fact, it thwarted the achievements of the Polish science within the scope of the civil proceeding. The project solutions underwent criticism and codification of the civil procedure, above all, its assumptions, revived again after a political turn in 1956.
In this paper I wish to look at whether English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is likely to acquire an identity of its own and be universally perceived as a linguistic entity different from, and independent of, native speaker English(es). The discussion begins with a brief overview of certain controversies surrounding the ELF case, before turning to the so-called Latin analogy theme. The fate of Latin, another well-known example of a language of international communication in the history of mankind, was in fact sealed by the emergence - in the early Middle Ages - of a non-native variety of the language, decidedly distinct from the natural language that later developed into Romance. The paper will attempt to present certain aspects of the Latin-English analogy, with a view to obtaining clues as to the possible future development of the modern lingua franca.
In Porządek sądów i spraw miejskich prawa majdeburskiego w Koronie Polskiej published in Cracow in 1559 Bartłomiej Groicki had codified with respect to law regulations the text of a court summons. This codification also comprised the linguistic layer of the summons. The model of a summons text had been its oral and written text realizations in the court practice both in Polish and in Latin, which were previously known from mediaeval Polish, and also legal regulations included in professional legal literature written in Latin.Numerous reprints of Porządek sądów…, used through centuries in the court practice in Poland, contributed to the popularization and preservation of a summons in linguistic awareness of court officials and participants of court trials as a standard official utterance
This essay, after determining the characteristics constituting a codification, sets out the historical conditions for the creation of national codifications in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It then deals with a number of myths and misconceptions associated with codifications. The Proposal for a Regulation on a Common European Sales Law has now firmly placed the issue of codification on the European legal agenda. The essay therefore attempts to assess its chances of success against the background of the historical experiences; thus, it considers the arguments that have, in the past, been advanced in favour of codifications of private law and also looks at other factors that have contributed to their success. All in all, the auspices for a European Code of Contract Law, let alone a Civil Code, are far from ideal.
This article tries to return to the essence of civil law which, with a little more than ten key contractual institutions, allows all disputes created from newly founded institutions to be examined and interpreted. If law is science it must be ableto be reduced to a set of basic concepts that have been coined and concluded from daily contractual practice and, almost in their entirety, have been in force over time. Hence the study of Roman law and Roman legal tradition remain a constantreference to our continental law. However, this does not prevent them from being open to gradual enrichment.
This article describes the main tendencies in the development of the Lemkian morphology, namely, in the inflection of the anaphoric pronouns in the speech of Lemkos. The focus is on determining similarities and differences between the inventory of grammatical forms, as described in the codified norm, and the pronominal forms, the use of which is typical for the actual spoken Lemkian (presented here as a corpus of Lemkian oral speech, consisting of conversations recorded within a family circle). The present comparative analysis shows that the paradigm of anaphoric pronouns in the Grammar of Lemkian language is no longer an adequate reflections of the linguistic reality.
The paper aims at investigating how the Czech Republic (member of the European Union) deals with the problem of recodification of the Civil Law after political system transformation. The paper presents changes in Inheritance Law that strengthening testamentary freedom and modify the purview of family protection.
The article focuses on the problem of orthographic and graphic variants of English loanwords in modern Russian. The empirical material was excerpted from normative dictionaries and Russian glossy magazines. The main purpose of the studies was to define the reasons for different notation of anglicisms, to illustrate the types of orthographic and graphic variants, and also to indicate the most important issues of loanword codification in normative practice. Variation in writing is a dynamic phenomenon in Russian (ortho) graphy that requires lexicographical description as there are no separate rules of notation for loanwords.
Initially, treaty politics based on the law of treaties was created exclusively of customary norms. During the process of superseding custom with international agreements, treaties and other documents that contain norms based on treaty authorisation also started to be viewed as the sources of international law. In the political and legal doctrine, the notion of a treaty was interpreted in various manners, due to, among others, the reduced objective scope of treaties. A significant input into the understanding of treaty politics was made by the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties of March 25, 1969, which caused that the place and meaning of custom in the international law ceased to be questioned. An element essential for the development of custom is practice, which should be long enough; however, it is difficult to pinpoint the precise length of the required period. It is possible to unambiguously state that customary law may function alongside treaty law of the same content.Full text: http://bazhum.muzhp.pl/czasopismo/589/?idno=14760
The aim of this article is to present the history of what has become the first and currently the only Polish Civil Code. The codification work began shortly after Poland regained independence in 1918 and concluded with the adoption of the Code in 1964. These efforts, spanning over almost 50 years, were made under various political and socio-economic conditions. The way the codification work was carried out, the methods used and even the importance attached to the codification by the authorities were entwined with the rhythm of political breakthroughs and turning points. The article describes the course of the codification work, emphasizing methods chosen by various bodies entrusted with the task of preparing the draft version of the Civil Code. These considerations concerning the area of recent legal history contribute to the always topical discussion on how to establish legal norms that are sustainable, of high quality and in line with social needs.
This paper refers to certain aspects of the process of simplification of the European Union legislation. It focuses on the three main methods of editorial and substantial intervention in the text of a Union legal act, i.e. consolidation, codification and recast. Those three conceptions, their purpose and differences between them in terms of the procedure applied and the legal and practical consequences for the Union law are elaborated. Interdependence of those three methods is explained. The first step of the technical simplification of the Union law is the informal consolidation of the text of a legal act which forms the basis for the formal codification work at a later stage, which in turn is the basis for recasting of a legal act. The importance and results of the law simplification process in the three main pillars of the common agricultural policy: the common organisation of the markets, direct payments and rural development are demonstrated.
Kashubian and Ruthenian (and Galician Ukrainian) have been developing under a strong Polish impact. In the article, I examine the occurrence of the past tense and conditional mood, modelled by Polish (of type chciałem, chciałbym) in texts and grammars of Ruthenian, Galician Ukrainian, Rusyn and Kashubian. While in case of the East Slavic languages, I present just an overview of the issue, I discuss more in-depth the grammatical evaluation and use of such forms in Kashubian from the oldest texts until current written usage. This shows the fact that the recommendations of Kashubian grammarians and the real written usage do not match. By comparing Kashubian with East Slavic written varieties under Polish influence, I intended to show that these languages have faced the same tendencies in dealing with the existence of grammar forms enforced by the Polish language, partly supported by certain dialects.
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