The legal regulations applicable to the marine insurance contract in force in the first years of the Polish People’s Republic
The legal regulations applicable to the marine insurance contract in force in the first years of the Polish People’s Republic

Summary/Abstract: The marine insurance increased the security of sea transactions and served to secure credit transactions. They were instrumental in the development of maritime business operations. For the above reasons, this article sets out to provide a historical-legal of maritime law regulations governing the institution of marine insurance contracts, operative in Poland from 1920 until maritime law was unified in 1961. In the available literature, there are many studies on maritime law after 1962. The earlier period has not been discussed more in detail, but only mentioned, which is the reason for undertaking the presented topic. Therefore, it will attempt to explain the essence and meaning of the marine insurance contract and indicate what was the subject and object of the contract in maritime legislation of the People’s Republic of Poland. A detailed analysis of the maritime insurance regulations indicated that the Polish regulations were more transparent, explicit and detailed, and thus did not require additions out of code, as was the case with the post-German legislation. Nevertheless, they continued the solutions adopted earlier and systematized them in a legal act. Therefore, for the Polish regulation of marine insurance, mainly the German solutions from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries were relevant, and were the source of contemporary Polish formal and legal regulations in this area.

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