Good Manners in Polish Contract Law – Selected Issues Cover Image

Dobre obyczaje w polskim prawie kontraktowym – wybrane zagadnienia
Good Manners in Polish Contract Law – Selected Issues

Author(s): Jan Mojak
Subject(s): Civil Law, Law on Economics, EU-Legislation, Sociology of Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: good manners in contract law; general clauses; clause of good manners; rules of social coexistence; good faith; clause of good faith; principles of fairness; socio-economic purpose of law

Summary/Abstract: This article contains an overview of good manners in Polish contract law. The overview leads to the conclusion that following clauses – rules of social coexistence and socio-economic purpose of law, which are based on the legislation from the time of the Polish People’s Republic (PRL) – need to be replaced by the clause of good manners. It is necessary for the full and thorough Europeanization of the Polish civil law. The two aforementioned clauses appear to be completely foreign concepts and legal categories in the legal doctrine of EU member states which were not the satellite states of the Soviet Union. These clauses have no equivalents in the classic European civil law studies. The return to the good manners in the Polish contract law will undoubtedly more deeply anchor the Polish institutions of the contract law in the legal system of EU.

  • Issue Year: 25/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 161-175
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish