Criminal Law Aspects of Bigamy in The Interwar Poland
Criminal Law Aspects of Bigamy in The Interwar Poland

Summary/Abstract: The interwar period was marked by a lack of uniform laws regulating the institution of marriage. Particular districts had different legal regulations as a legacy of the former legislation binding in the partitioned Poland. Depending on the professed faith or place of residence, the legislator imposed on inhabitants of particular districts specific provisions pertaining both to entering into and dissolution of marriage. However, it should be noted that in central and eastern Poland, entrusting civil jurisdiction in matrimonial cases to ecclesiastical courts contributed to the phenomenon of bigamy spreading in the interwar period, which proved an enormous challenge to the legislative authorities and primarily to the judiciary.

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