Published: 2024-12-24

Equal rights for spouses in successive versions of Karol Lutostański’s draft bill on matrimonial property

Michał Glück
Zeszyty Prawnicze
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2024.24.4.01

Abstract

The period between the World Wars was marked by many social changes in equal rights, both in Poland and other European countries. The Codification Commission of the Republic of Poland working at the time was tasked with unifying matrimonial property law and adjusting it to changing socioeconomic conditions. The Polish lawyer Karol Lutostański (1880‒1939) made a signal contribution to the creation of his country’s matrimonial property law, presenting a series of successive drafts for a bill on which he and his associates started to work in 1934. A new perspective on these developments is provided by a recently discovered typescript of the draft bill along with the revisions the parliamentary subcommittee made in its second reading in 1938‒1939. The aim of this article is to analyze the amendments the subcommittee proposed to the provisions on property rights in the second reading of Lutostański’s third version of the draft (1937), compare them with the other versions, and assess the overall trend in the changes from the point of view of equal rights.

Keywords:

equal rights, the Codification Commission of the Republic of Poland, Karol Lutostański’s draft of matrimonial property law, the subcommittee on matrimonial property law, matrimonial property relations

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Glück, M. (2024). Equal rights for spouses in successive versions of Karol Lutostański’s draft bill on matrimonial property. Zeszyty Prawnicze, 24(4), 5–26. https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2024.24.4.01

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