Are Debtors Living Better Nowadays Than They Did During the Polish People’s Republic Period? Observations in the Context of the Amendments to the Provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure Concerning Subjective Limitations on Judicial Enforcement Cover Image

Czy dłużnikom żyje się dzisiaj lepiej niż żyło im się za PRL? Uwagi na tle zmian przepisów Kodeksu postępowania cywilnego dotyczących przedmiotowych ograniczeń egzekucji
Are Debtors Living Better Nowadays Than They Did During the Polish People’s Republic Period? Observations in the Context of the Amendments to the Provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure Concerning Subjective Limitations on Judicial Enforcement

Author(s): Antoni Żukowski
Subject(s): History of Law, Sociology of Law, Court case, Administrative Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: enforcement; limits to the enforcement; debtor’s rights;

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to show what changes have taken place in the Polish civil procedure with regard to the so-called subjective limitations on judicial enforcement, and how these changes have affected the way enforcement proceedings are conducted and how they affected the passive party to the enforcement proceedings – the debtor. The paper presents the origin of the introduction of subjective limitations on judicial enforcement to the Polish civil procedure, which occurred in 1932 within the scope of the Ordinance of the President of the Republic of Poland of 27 October 1932 – the Law on Judicial Enforcement Proceedings, and then discusses the evolution of these regulations that took place during the existence of the People's Republic of Poland. In the final part of the paper the historical legal status is compared with the currently binding provisions, which made it possible to formulate conclusions allowing for an answer to the question raised in the title of the paper. The analysis takes into account the arguments of a structural nature, which made it possible to formulate a thesis that the scope of the enforcement limitations in question has significantly increased since 1932, and a certain “inflation” of the provisions in question results from the progressing development of the level of social life. Sources which made it possible to answer the question posed in the title of this article include the materials of the Codification Commission of the Second Polish Republic, commentaries to the Code of Civil Procedure of 1930, commentaries to the Code of Civil Procedure of 1964, jurisprudence of the Supreme Court and other materials such as scientific monographs or scientific articles on enforcement proceedings and the subject limitations of judicial enforcement.

  • Issue Year: 22/2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 527-551
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Polish