Obligations of the Policyholder and Liability of the Insurer in the Marine Insurance Contract in Poland between 1920 and 1961
Obligations of the Policyholder and Liability of the Insurer in the Marine Insurance Contract in Poland between 1920 and 1961

Summary/Abstract: Marine insurance is historically the oldest branch of property insurance dating back to antiq- uity. Marine insurance predated the development of land insurance by a considerable margin, as the first legal provisions prescribing a marine insurance contract date back to the medieval centers of maritime trade, including Barcelona, Genoa and Venice. In Poland, marine insur- ance was initiated at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries. As they increased the certainty of maritime trade and were used to secure credit transactions, they were an important factor in the development of maritime business in the 19th and 20th centuries. In view of the above, this article seeks to analyze the historical and legal provisions of maritime law relating to the duties of the policyholder and the liability of the insurer arising from the code regulations of the maritime insurance contract, which were in force in Poland from 1918 until the unifi- cation of maritime law in 1961. The article will attempt to show whether the Polish maritime law regulations were based on the post-German regulations in this respect or whether they were completely different. It will also attempt to indicate the direction of changes in maritime law regulations in this respect.

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