Podstawy prawne nabycia obywatelstwa polskiego po 1918 roku – ziemie byłego zaboru austriackiego
Legal grounds for obtaining Polish citizenship in the former Austrian Partition after 1918

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this paper is the question of the “initial composition” of citizens of there vived Polish state i.e. the Republic of Poland, which uses the example of the former Austrian Partition due to a considerable number of applicable regulations. The article indicates principal sources of law regarding this partition and discusses in detail the three mainmeans of acquiring Polish citizenship: 1) based on residence in the territory of Poland,2) based on the place of birth in that territory, and 3) by means of executing the right ofoption. Specific legal norms regulating these methods of obtaining citizenship are broughtup, pointing out the mutual dependencies between them as well as interpretational difficulties. By exemplifying the regulations regarding the former Austrian Partition the authormakes an eff ort to display the level of intricacy and complication of the domestic and internationallaw regulating the consequences of establishing the Republic of Poland in matters concerning citizenship. The discussion of the principles of obtaining Polish citizenship ispreceded by a short introduction on history and remarks on the contemporaneous understandingof the concept of citizenship, which add a more extensive context to the main subject of the paper.

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