French Civil Code in the Free City of Cracow (1815–1846)

Andrzej Dziadzio, Ph.D. (1994), Jagiellonian University, is Professor at the Law Faculty of that university, specialising in the constitutional and legal history of the Habsburg monarchy and Poland in the 18th and 19th century. Mateusz Mataniak, Ph.D. (2014), Jagiellonian University, is Senior Researcher at the Law Faculty of that university, specialising in the constitutional and legal history of the Free City of Cracow and the judiciary in Poland.Piotr Michalik, Ph.D. (2010), Jagiellonian University, is Senior Lecturer at the Law Faculty of that university and an attorney. He specialises in the constitutional and legal history of the Free City of Cracow and modern England.

• 6 Servitudes, Expropriations and Possessory Protection1 Servitudes1.1 General Remarks1.2 An Analysis of Cases Concerning Servitudes1.3 Conclusions2 Expropriations2.1 General Remarks2.2 The Expropriation Act of the Free City of Cracow of 18212.3 Construction of the Cracow-Silesia Railway Line2.4 The Delineation of the Route to the Podgórze Bridge2.5 Other Cases and Conclusions3 Possessory Protection3.1 General Remarks3.2 Examples of Cases Concerning Possessory Protection7 The Form of Contracts1 Pacta sunt servanda and Freedom of Contract of the Code Civil in the Case Law of Cracow’s Courts2 The Form of a Contract for Evidentiary Purposes in French Law and in Cracow’s Case Law3 The Evidentiary Procedure of the Code Civil in the Practice of Cracow’s Courts4 Conclusion8 Inheritance1 Introduction2 Order of ab intestato Succession3 The Rights of Compulsory Heirs – The System of Reserve4 Testamentary Legacies5 Inherited Debts6 Law and Justice7 Heirless Estates8 The Protection of the Succession Rights of the Catholic Church9 ConclusionConclusionBibliographyIndex