Z prac ministerialnych nad ujednoliceniem prawa chowania zmarłych w II Rzeczypospolitej
From the ministerial work on the unification of burial law in the Second Polish Republic

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to present the long-term process of forming the Burial and Determining the Cause of Death Act of 1932 and its implementing regulation of 1933. Through the outline of the history of burial customs and the related legal rules from antiquity to the 19th century, the author focuses on interwar Poland, re-established after years of non-existence, which tried to undertake its own legislative activity in this field. Basic sanitary regulations regarding the exhumation and transportation of corpses were passed very quickly, but the comprehensive and unifying legal act in the matter of burial was not established until the beginning of the 1930s. On the basis of archival files of the Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Enlightenment, the author undertakes to present the chronology of work on the act of 1932,and to evaluate this process, which lasted over a decade.

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