After successful process of unification of Polish civil law in 1946, in the period 1947–1949 works on the codifications of this branch of law were held. In February 1947 the Co- dification Commission was established. The Commission was to prepare the version of Civil Code, based on the existing acts and decrees. The changes in the existing law could be done only exceptionally. The draft of inheritance law, as a part of civil code, was prepared by Seweryn Szer and Jan Witecki. The first reading was concluded in December 1948. There were some important changes in inheritance law, for example provisions concerning statutory scuccesion and – in particular, groups accepting suc- cession. At last, the draft of inheritance law was not even published. In 1949 the work on new code was stopped beacuse of political reasons (the Stalinisation of Poland).
After the World War II commercial law companies, even though they had been depri- ved of their enterprises, were mostly not crossed off the Commercial Register (in Polish: Rejestr Handlowy). Regardless of the fact that they had been deprived of their proper- ties, they still existed. In spite of the fact that communists considered passing a bill that would cause their ultimate liquidation, it appeared that closing down the com- mercial law companies may actually lead to a deterioration in international relations with western states. This state of affairs surprisingly meant that nowadays one can re- activate the prewar companies. Therefore documents that have been recovered are of great importance for both legal practitioners (mainly judges and attorneys at law) and theorists of law.
The formation of government procurement law during the Second Polish Republic ma- intained in inseparable connection with contract law. Such consistent development of those fields of law have been withhold in the early years of the Polish People’s Republic. It is generally emphasized that after 1948 the inadequacy of Polish Code of Obligations in relation to the new social and economical conditions became unmistakable. The ter- minal point of validity of the traditional understanding of “government procurement law” is marked as the date of entry into force of the centralized state planning in so- cialist economy Act of 19th April 1950. Independent contracts maintained only within the edge markets and on the margins of economic trade. The concept of “government procurement law” temporarily vanished from law and legal language. To summarize it must be noted that the legislations from the interwar years in the sphere of government procurement law are regarded as valuable creation of polish legislative theory.
The Białystok Voievodship was established in 1919. It consisted of the territories, which were earlier under Russian Empire rule, but belonged to two different administrative structures. Until 1928, the judiciary system has been regulated by laws coming from the time of the partitions or by temporary Polish regulation. In 1928 the judiciary system in Poland was unified. The most important problem in the judiciary system was the very frequent changes of the seats of the courts. Financial shortages were forcing the State to liquidate small courts. The result was very poor – people had troubles with access to the courts. Small courts were liquidated by the order of the Minister of Justice, not by the act of parliament. It was strongly criticized in the doctrine at that time.
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