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I. Rechtsgeschichte des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit
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BANK AUSTRIA CREDITANSTALT, WIEN (IBAN AT04 1100 0006 2280 0100, BIC BKAUATWW), DEUTSCHE BANK MÜNCHEN (IBAN DE16 7007 0024 0238 8270 00, BIC DEUTDEDBMUC)
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Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs 10. Jahrgang Heft 2/2020, pp. 269-277, 2021/05/12
Mittel- und osteuropäische Rechtshistorische Konferenz 2019
Central and Eastern European Legal History Conference 2019
Selected examples from the jurisprudence of the courts of the Free City of Krakow prove that the application of the Code civil was often based on an interpretation of regulations which did not meet the intention and content of the French codification. On the one hand, the courts, through an original interpretation of legal norms, aimed to deliberately circumvent French law in order to weaken its rigor in relation to the rights of women or illegitimate children. On the other hand, the erroneous interpretation of the law showed that the courts were not always able to abandon the way of legal thinking which corresponded to the assumptions of Austrian legislation, but differed from the systemic regulations of the Code civil. An important role in the control of courts over the application of French law was played by the Faculty of Law of the Jagiellonian University. At the request of the parties to court proceedings it checked the compliance with substantive and formal law of two rulings of different court instances on the same content. In the opinions issued, the Law Faculty instructed the courts in such fundamental matters as e.g. the form of legal action for evidentiary purposes (ad probationem).
Keywords: adultery – divorce – Code civil – Free City of Krakow – illegitimate children – principle of freedom of contract