Dyskusja publiczna nad projektem kodeksu cywilnego w 1960 r.

The published draft of the Polish Civil Code was submitted to the public discussion in 1960. The six-month discussion was a huge organisational undertaking in which a large group of citizens, not only legal specialists, was successfully involved. A particular role in organising the discussion was played by the Association of Polish Lawyers, whose branches devoted a lot of time and effort in organising numerous debates, and in effect gathered an extremely rich discussion material. Although the public debate was partly a facade and did not always have a decisive impact on the content of the next draft, it made the future code a matter of all citizens. The proposed solutions of civil law were discussed not only among lawyers but also in daily press, on radio and television, at meetings of social organisations, and even in the factories on the meetings of the employees. This general scope of discussions is much better visible in the debate on family law, whose problems attracted the attention of a vast majority of discussants. The constructions of the inheritance law — sometimes very complicated — interested mainly jurists. The article summarises the results of these public consultations regarding the prepositions of the inheritance law included in the draft of the Civil Code of 1960.