Prawo łaski w Księstwie Warszawskim i Królestwie Kongresowym
Pardon in the Duchy of Warsaw and Congress Poland

Summary/Abstract: The article shows how the law of pardon was regulated and how it was applied in two quasi-states, the Duchy of Warsaw (1807–1813) and the Congress Poland (1815–1831) during the constitutional period. These two entities were dependent on France and Russia respectively, which was not irrelevant to the regulations on pardon, since those powers were closely related to monarchs. Both the Polish king (prince of Warsaw) and the Russian emperor (tsar) in the context of the prerogative of the law of pardon have had a profound influence on the course and outcome of individual judicial proceedings so issues of abolition, amnesty and abolition of a punishment are also raised in the article. At the end, the elements of pardons operating in the territories of the three states that made partitions of the Republic of Poland are mentioned.

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