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Abstract

The legal regulation of the inheritance relations in the Western provinces of Poland in the interwar period is considered in the article. The main features of the subject of inheritance, the grounds for its acquiring, the conditions of deprivation of inheritance are determined. The peculiarity of regulation of the inheritance relations was the appointment of a curator or a guardian of heritable property by the time an heir gains the owner’s rights. An important element for regulating of heritable relations was determination in law the list of the heridator’s obligations, which, in future, were taken by the heir (for example, obligation according to the juvenile maintenance, selection money for burial from the inherited property). An important fact for protection of members of heritable relations was the activity of Probate Court in the ex-Germany lands. This court resolved the problem of the heirs’ in law searching and gave a certificate for hereditary property. After the unification of the judiciary in Poland, Probate Courts stopped their functioning, and all heritable problems were considered by local courts as Grodskiy local courts. The heir had the right to accept the gross estate or refuse from it in the whole, but not in the separate parts. Exceptions were the ways of heritage received by law, testament, or inheritance contract. If there is concluded a few testaments or a few inheritance contracts between the same grantor and heir that included the one group of relationships

Keywords: inheritance relations, grantor, heir, heritage opening, testament, refusal from heritage, inheritance contract

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