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A historical Mennonite cemetery in Stogi, Poland An 18th-century Mennonite house in Żuławki, Poland. Olenders (Polish: Olędrzy Polish: [ɔˈlɛ̃dʐɨ] or Olendrzy, singular form: Olęder, Olender; German: Holländer, Hauländer) were people, often of Dutch or Frisian ancestry, who lived in settlements in Poland organized under a particular type of law.
Dziennik Ustaw (Polish: [ˈd͡ʑɛn.ɲik ˈu.staf]) or Dziennik Ustaw Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (English: Journal of Laws of the Republic of Poland, abbreviated Dz. U.) is the most important Polish publication of legal acts. It is the only official source of law for promulgation of Polish laws.
The Polish law or legal system in Poland has been developing since the first centuries of Polish history, over 1,000 years ago. The public and private laws of Poland are codified. The supreme law in Poland is the Constitution of Poland. Poland is a civil law legal jurisdiction and has a civil code, the Civil Code of Poland.
The administrative division of Poland since 1999 has been based on three levels of subdivision. The territory of Poland is divided into voivodeships (provinces); these are further divided into powiats (counties or districts), and these in turn are divided into gminas (communes or municipalities). Major cities normally have the status of both ...
He was supposed to guard order in the city. In Congress Poland, a gmina was made up of a few gromadas. In the Grand Duchy of Posen a sołtys usually served the role of a village owner. [3] In 1934, sołectwa were introduced once again to Poland, which mainly held control over business relating to the people. [3]
Government documents of Poland (3 C) H. Legal history of Poland (6 C, 73 P) ... Pages in category "Law of Poland" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of ...
All municipalities in Poland are governed regardless of their type under the mandatory mayor–council government system. Executive power in a rural gmina is exercised by a wójt, while the homologue in municipalities containing cities or towns is called accordingly either a city mayor (prezydent miasta) or a town mayor (burmistrz), all of them elected by a two-round direct election, while the ...
City charter of Kraków, Poland's medieval capital; inscribed in Latin.. Magdeburg rights (German: Magdeburger Recht, Polish: Prawo magdeburskie, Lithuanian: Magdeburgo teisė; also called Magdeburg Law) were a set of town privileges first developed by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (936–973) and based on the Flemish Law, [1] which regulated the degree of internal autonomy within cities and ...