Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.4467/20844131ks.22.015.15718
Norbert Varga
WWI significantly influenced the development of private and trade law. The regulation of economic law institutions came up as a necessity. To protect the consumers’interests, the state interfered with private law affairs and regulated sharking procedures, unfair competition and cartel law. By taking European regulation results into account, cartel regulation organisations were introduced by the Cartel Act; the most important of them was the Cartel Court. This paper shows the most important steps of the antitrust regulation in Hungary’s special attention to the relevant European cartel regulations.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.4467/20844131ks.22.018.15721
Z. Zarzycki
After regaining independence in 1918, Poland inherited five different post-partition legal orders from the 19th century, regulating personal matrimony law on its territory, i.e. Prussian, Austrian, Hungarian, Russian and Polish from the times of the Kingdom of Poland. This situation required urgent reform and taking codification steps. The codification task was entrusted to the Codification Commission, established in 1919. Its result was the governmental matrimony law Project adopted in 1929, known as Lutostański’s Project. Unfortunately, it was not passed by the Sejm. It happened because of the opposition of the Catholic Church and other conservative forces. The reasons for this state of affairs were too modern, for those times, legal solutions contained therein, and above all, the possibility of obtaining a divorce. Many legal solutions included in this project can be found in modern matrimony law, i.e. almost a hundred years later. Nevertheless, the very idea of codification and the adopted main principles of matrimony law should be considered a success of Polish legal thought. The more so because many of these solutions were used in post-war Poland in the Decree on matrimony law in 1945 and are known in contemporary matrimony law.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.4467/20844131ks.22.035.16208
B. Brożek
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. I am honored that, although only in the digital space, this seminar takes place at the Jagiellonian University. I’m very happy that leading scientists from important research centers across Central and Eastern Europe agreed to take part in the project and in this meeting. I would also like to thank the organizers for their effort in putting this event together. I would like to share two short reflections of why I think the history of law is important for lawyers. Since my professional background is in the philosophy of law, and in particular in legal epistemology, it is from this theoretical perspective that I would like to approach this question. As I said, I would like to make two points. The first is that – as in any other area of culture: in science, art, or literature – history of law is a history of problems and attempts to solve them. Thus, the way we understand what the law is, how it functions, how we design the law for the future, always grows out of the past; the past which is filled with problems, attempts – both successful and failed – at solving them, and new problems arising on the basis of the old ones. This is clearly visible in such disciplines as physics. Imagine that at the times of Thomas Aquinas, some medieval scholar – thanks to a miracle involving time-travel – is able to get their hands on the famous article of Heisenberg in which he used the matrix approach to construct his version of quantum mechanics. And let us assume further that the scholar is capable of understanding the mathematics involved in Heisenberg’s theory. Even under these counterfactual conditions, the physical layer of the theory would be
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Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.4467/20844131ks.22.023.15726
Ingrid Lanczová
The author reviews mental disorder as a ground for divorce in the Czechoslovak Act No. 320 of 1919 Coll. This Act was called the Marriage Amendment and was in effect for the Czech countries until 1950. The author considers the wording of the Act itself, the explanatory report, jurisprudence, and the court practice. The author compares it to the Hungarian marriage law that continued to be effective in Slovakia until 1950. It was Act No. XXXI of 1894 (the so-called Marriage Act), which regulated divorces in Slovakia, despite adopting the Czechoslovak Marriage Amendment. The Hungarian Marriage Act did not recognise mental illness as a ground for divorce. However, it was a controversial topic in both legal environments, the Hungarian and Czechoslovak.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.4467/20844131ks.22.013.15716
Vilém Knoll, Tomáš Pezl
The paper deals with the development of law in Czechoslovakia from its inception to the existence of the so-called First Republic, focusing in particular on the development of criminal law. The primary question addressed in the paper is whether there is legal continuity with the previous Austro-Hungarian legal system. Given that there were several legal orders in force in the aftermath of the establishment of Czechoslovakia, the next necessary question is how this situation was addressed. The paper presents examples from selected areas of criminal law, such as juvenile justice, national security laws, or military criminal norms, and intends to document the main legislative trends, namely the introduction of completely new legal regulations, the adoption of the original Austrian regulation and its nationwide application, or, last but not least, the adoption of both Austrian and Hungarian regulations with their simultaneous application. The codification attempts in the Criminal Code, which were not completed in the relevant period, have not been overlooked.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-31DOI: 10.4467/20844131ks.22.005.15253
J. Maziarz
Political Constitution of the Portuguese Republic of 1933 The work consists of two parts. One of them is the first Polish translation of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic of April 11, 1933, and the other is an article devoted to this constitution and the system of government prevailing in Portugal during its period of validity. The Constitution of 1933 had never previously been translated into Polish, although its translation (often anonymous) was published in several other languages, including English, French, German, and Russian. While the circumstances of adopting the constitution of 1933, its sources, and its ideological concepts are reasonably well chronicled in Polish literature, the Estado Novo system is less so, and the author devotes his article to analysing this new regime. It is a synthesis of the constitution’s provisions, against the background of the circumstances in which it was adopted and the ideology on which it was based: corporatism, conservatism, moderate nationalism, and meritocracy. The author also does not ignore the unique role of the architect and originator of the Portuguese system of that time –António de Oliveira Salazar –and his views on the state system.
《1933年葡萄牙共和国政治宪法》全文分为两部分。其中一篇是1933年4月11日葡萄牙共和国宪法的第一部波兰语译本,另一篇是专门介绍该宪法及其有效期间葡萄牙盛行的政府制度的文章。1933年宪法之前从未被翻译成波兰语,尽管它的翻译(通常是匿名的)被出版成其他几种语言,包括英语、法语、德语和俄语。虽然波兰文学对1933年宪法的实施情况、其来源和意识形态概念都有相当详尽的记载,但“新国家”制度却没有这么多记载,作者在文章中专门分析了这个新政权。它是宪法条款的综合,其背景是它被采用的环境和它所基于的意识形态:社团主义、保守主义、温和的民族主义和精英政治。作者也没有忽视当时葡萄牙制度的建筑师和创始人-António de Oliveira Salazar的独特作用,以及他对国家制度的看法。
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Pub Date : 2022-03-31DOI: 10.4467/20844131ks.22.008.15256
K. Fokt
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Pub Date : 2022-03-31DOI: 10.4467/20844131ks.22.011.15259
Krystyna Chojnicka
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Pub Date : 2022-03-31DOI: 10.4467/20844131ks.22.002.15250
Łukasz Gołaszewski
Franciszek Bieliński’s Attitude towards Tithes. A Contribution to the History of the Dispute over Tithes in Masovia in the 1750’s The present article describes Franciszek Bieliński’s attitude towards tithes. He was the Grand Marshal of the Polish Crown and initiated a conflict about tithes between the Masovian nobility and the Catholic clergy, that began in the early 1750’s. In the article I analyse the manifesto that was published under Bieliński’s auspices, along with his correspondence with other dignitaries of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, as well as their speeches during the Sejm of 1752 in Grodno. It was no secret that Bieliński initiated this conflict mainly for personal reasons. However, his activity perpetuated the evolution of the practice that courts for nobility were competent to examine cases concerning tithes.
Franciszek Bieliński对什一税的态度。对1750年代马索维亚什一税争议历史的贡献本文描述了弗朗西泽克Bieliński对什一税的态度。他是波兰王室的大元帅,在17世纪50年代早期,他发起了马绍尔贵族和天主教神职人员之间关于什一税的冲突。在这篇文章中,我分析了在Bieliński赞助下发表的宣言,以及他与波兰立陶宛联邦其他政要的通信,以及他们在1752年格罗德诺瑟姆期间的演讲。众所周知,Bieliński发起这场冲突主要是出于个人原因。然而,他的活动延续了贵族法庭有权审查有关什一税的案件这一做法的演变。
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Pub Date : 2022-03-31DOI: 10.4467/20844131ks.22.001.15249
Marcin Tomasiewicz
This article focuses on the relationship between the imperial cult in pagan Rome and the heavenly hierarchy taught by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. The latter’s thought played a significant role in the construction of the medieval image of the world. Medieval reflection on the state and law drew from it as well. Therefore, possible analogies between the imperial cult and the philosophy of Corpus Dionysiacum would indicate an indirect influence that the imperial cult of the emperor had on certain later ideas about state power, on the legitimacy of certain forms of social and constitutional organization, and on prophetic visions inspiring social and political movements. Against this background, the article compares the emperor’s genius (as well as the imperial virtues and the emperor’s numen) with the immaterial beings described by the Areopagite. It reveals clear parallels regarding the hierarchical construction of geniuses in the imperial cult of ancient Rome and Pseudo-Dionysius’ Angels, Names of God, and divine providences. The similarities in mediation between the human world and the divine reality regarding the granting of creative power and supernatural knowledge are also associated with this structure. In both cases, the divine element (genius and heavenly beings) has a historiosophical aspect, consisting of justification of belief about care that the deity exercises over the universal history of mankind. The conducted research constitutes an impulse for further research in the field of political aspects of medieval angelology.
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