scholarly journals Possibility to terminate the contract of the rent-free use of arable land without the notice period due to failure to settle the tax obligation

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-194
Author(s):  
Jarosław Adam Szczechowicz

The study discusses the issue of a contract of the rent-free use of agricultural land (Article 708 of the Civil Code 1964). Particular attention has been paid to the possibility of terminating the contract without notice period due to failure to settle the tax obligation. The admission of the provisions on the failure in paying rent to the contract for the rent-free use of arable land means that the lack of payment of taxes or other burdens related to the ownership of real estate, which is the equivalent of not paying the rent in the lease contract, authorizes the termination of this contract. The author shares the view formulated in the decisions of the Supreme Court that Article 703 of the Civil Code (1964) is a provision of a relatively binding nature. As a consequence, adopting the above position leads to the conclusion that the contract may be terminated even without the notice period if the parties to the contract have differently regulated the effects of delay in payment of these benefits than is stipulated in Article 703 (1964).

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 299-305
Author(s):  
Jarosław Szczechowicz

The study discusses issues related to maintaining the deadline for suing claims due to restrictions on the use of real estate provided for in Article 129 (1–3) of the Environmental Protection Law. Provided for in the provisions of Articles 129–136 of the Environmental Protection Law liability for damages was formed as a statutory obligation to compensate for damages resulting to property owners (holders of perpetual usufruct) from the introduction of legal regulations that narrow down the possibilities of using these properties. The conditions for liability are: entry into force of a regulation or act of local law resulting in a limitation on the way the property is used, damage suffered by the owner of the property, the holder of perpetual usufruct or the person holding property law, and a causal link between the restriction on the use of the property and the damage. Claims for damages derived from these sources meet the requirements of Articles 361–363 of the Civil Code of the Republic of Poland. They are property claims, subject to limitation (art. 117 § 1 of the Civil Code), however — without being tort claims — they are subject to limitation on general principles arising from Article 118 of the Civil Code. An important legal issue is whether, and if so, to what extent, it is possible to apply by analogy provisions on suspension or interruption of the limitation period to the preclusion period contained in Article 129 (4) of the Environmental Protection Law. The starting point for reflection on this issue are the arguments originating from the current case law of the Supreme Court. Based on the views and arguments of the Supreme Court, the author tries to answer the question on the conditions that meet the three-year period provided for in Article 129 (4) of the Environmental Protection Law asserting claims for restrictions on the use of real estate


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
V. K. Andreev ◽  

The article discusses the forms of clarification on matters of judicial practice by the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, the Presidium of the Supreme Court, as well as in the Review of judicial practice on some issues of the application of legislation on business companies dated December 25, 2019. Clarifications of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on issues of judicial practice are characterized as the positions of the courts identified in the course of studying and summarizing the judicial practice of the corresponding category of cases, which are acts of individual regulation of public relations. Focusing on Art. 6 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation and Section 6, Art. 12 of the APC RF shows the validity of dividing wrong into two types of wrong: the «moderate» type of «judicial law-making and the position of the court» and the «radical» type of «judicial law-making», when the court develops the rule of law, which contradicts the constitutional principle of separation of powers. When resolving corporate disputes, it is necessary to investigate whether the charter of a non-public company does not contain the rights and obligations of its participants, which they themselves created by making a unanimous decision and including them in the charter of the company (paragraph 3 of Art. 66.3 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, paragraph 3 of Art. 14 of the Law about LLC).


Author(s):  
Anna Moskal

Does forgiveness nullify the effects of previous disinheritance? The legal nature of forgiveness is the subject of passionate debates among the representatives of civil law doctrine. According to the dominant position in the literature, forgiveness is an act of affection or its manifested expression of forgiveness of the perpetrator of experienced injustice and related to this grudge. This institution has been applied three times in the Civil Code — once with the donation agreement, twice in regulations of inheritance law. Article 1010 § 1 provides that a testator cannot disinherit eligible for legal portion if he forgave him. The wording of the above article indicates that accomplishment of disinheritance in case if testator eligible for legal portion has previously forgiven. The legislator did not, however, determine the effects of forgiveness in relation to previous disinheritance. In the act of 1971, the Supreme Court accepted that such forgiveness would automatically nullify the effects of disinheritance, and could be made in any form. In recent years, lower courts have begun to question the Supreme Court's position, and judges increasingly refer to the critical statements of numerous doctrines. As it was rightly stated, admitting the possibility of invoking the forgiveness made after disinheritance poses a serious threat to the realization of the testator’s will, who, by forgiving, does not necessarily want to revoke the effects of his previous disinheritance. The postulate of de lege ferenda is, according to the author of the article, giving of freedom of judging the effects of forgiveness to the courts and each examination of the forgiving testator’s will on the possible abatement of the consequences of previous disinheritance.]]>


2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-104
Author(s):  
Xiaoqun Xu

This study examines how law, custom, and social norm interacted in civil justice in Qing and Republican China by looking into 152 civil cases tried in 1912, right after the founding of the Republic of China, and a body of legal interpretations from the Supreme Court during 1912-1929, and certain provisions in the Civil Code of 1929-30--the very first one in Chinese history. It shows that both law and custom were invoked by judges within their moral universe or social norm. It traces how the Supreme Court allowed local customs to be a legal ground for rulings in certain civil disputes, and which customs in civil matters in the Qing and the early Republic were, and which were not, “hardened” into the Civil Code. The interplay between law and custom, mediated by judges with their normative sense of right and wrong, constituted both continuity and change in civil justice between the Qing era and the Republican period. Ultimately, the issues addressed here speak to a larger question of how Chinese jurists, within their judicial discretions, tried to strike a difficult but necessary balance between “law-on-books” and “law-in-action,” while law on the books was undergoing important revisions.


2020 ◽  
pp. 33-52
Author(s):  
Paweł Borecki

The judgment of March 31, 2020, file ref. II CSK 124/19, has great social and legal significance. It is the first Supreme Court ruling concerning the civil liability of church legal entities for pedophilic acts committed by a clergyman. The Supreme Court shared the view of the Court of Appeal accepting the liability of church legal persons in the light of all the facts of the case of Art. 430 of the Civil Code (culpability in supervision). However, it convincingly distanced itself from the position of the District Court (court of first instance) that liability under Art. 429 of the Civil Code (culpability in choice) should be taken into consideration. In the justification of the judgment, the Supreme Court conducted a thorough analysis of the premises for the civil liability of church legal persons for the activities of a religious person subordinate to them. In particular, it stated that if the perpetrator acts for personal gain and the performance of the official activity enables him to cause damage, the superior cannot effectively raise the objection that the subordinate caused said damage only in the performance of the entrusted tasks. Thus, the Supreme Court upheld the interpretation of Art. 430 of the Civil Code, assuming the liability of legal persons for damage caused by a subordinate. It distinctly applied this liability to church legal entities. When appointing the adjudication panel of the Supreme Court, impartiality was preserved. On the other hand, doubts are raised regarding the Court’s neutrality in terms of world-view in some parts of its judgment justification. The judgment of March 31, 2020 must be assessed as brave and just. It has the chance to set the course of judicial decisions in matters of the liability of religious legal persons for pedophilic acts committed by clergy acting under their supervision. The justification of the judgment is understandably critical towards the perpetrator and church legal persons superior to him, and also sometimes towards the provisions of the Code of Canon Law. It should be emphasized, however, that the judgment is not an “indictment” against the Catholic Church as such, and even less so against religion.


Author(s):  
Amanda Adamska ◽  
Anna Maria Barańska

The responsibility of an insurance company for damages caused by an insurance agent The subject of this article is the responsibility of an insurance company for damages caused by an insurance agent in connection with the performance of agency activities. The Act on Insurance Intermediation of 22 May 2003 lays down a liability regime based on the principle of risk. It also contains the definition of an insurance agent and performed agency activities. In the next part of the article there is analysed the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court concerning the interpretation of article 11 1 of the abovementioned Act. It discusses an attempt at defining the difference between activities performed “in connection with” and “at the occasion of” other activities. Finally there is analysed an issue of the contribution of the injured party to the occurrence of the damage in this type of cases article 362 of the Civil Code.


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