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Conducted in terms: 2025/26_L, 2026/27_L

ECTS credits: 4

Language: Polish

Organized by: Faculty of Law and Administration

Related to study programmes:

Law - part-time master studies

Civil law of obligation - second semester WP-PRZ-PCZ2

The course is a key element of civil-law education, focusing on a doctrinal and practical analysis of the individual types of obligational relationships regulated in Book Three of the Civil Code (Titles XI–XXXVII) and in statutes outside the Code. Its aim is to move from the abstract rules of the general part of the law of obligations to the detailed legal regimes of specific nominate contracts. The course is intended to develop the students' ability to move freely within contractual regulation, with particular regard to the contractual balance of the parties, the specific nature of commercial transactions and the mechanisms of consumer protection.

Completion of the course gives the student the tools to analyse independently complex factual situations in the special part of the law of obligations and to interpret civil-law norms correctly on the basis of current scholarly views and the case law of the Supreme Court and the ordinary courts. The student is able to qualify a factual situation correctly and identify the type of contract concluded, also in the case of innominate or mixed contracts; correctly determines the claims available to the parties; acquires the skills necessary to review and draft basic civil-law contracts; is able to identify and limit the legal risks connected with concluding and performing contracts in professional and consumer transactions.
The knowledge and skills acquired are a foundation for practising the legal professions (judge, advocate, attorney-at-law, notary) and for working as in-house counsel.

Term 2025/26_L:

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(in Polish) Dyscyplina naukowa, do której odnoszą się efekty uczenia się

law

(in Polish) E-Learning

Term 2019/20_L:

(in Polish) E-Learning

Term 2021/22_L:

(in Polish) E-Learning (pełny kurs) z podziałem na grupy

Term 2022/23_L:

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Term 2023/24_L:

(in Polish) E-Learning (pełny kurs) z podziałem na grupy

Term 2024/25_L:

(in Polish) E-Learning (pełny kurs) z podziałem na grupy

Term 2025/26_L:

(in Polish) E-Learning (pełny kurs) z podziałem na grupy

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Course coordinators

(in Polish) Opis nakładu pracy studenta w ECTS

Term 2023/24_L:

(in Polish) Godziny zajęć (wg planu studiów) z nauczycielem: 60 godzin (30 godzin wykład + 30 godzin ćwiczenia). Konsultacje z nauczycielem: 16 godzin. Praca własna studenta: 224 godzin (czas poświęcony na przygotowanie do zajęć, przygotowanie prac zaliczeniowych, ugruntowanie i rozszerzenie wiedzy). Suma godzin 300 Liczba punktów ECTS: ćwiczenia: 4, wykład: 4.

Term 2024/25_L:

(in Polish) Godziny zajęć (wg planu studiów) z nauczycielem: 60 godzin (30 godzin wykład + 30 godzin ćwiczenia). Konsultacje z nauczycielem: 16 godzin. Praca własna studenta: 224 godzin (czas poświęcony na przygotowanie do zajęć, przygotowanie prac zaliczeniowych, ugruntowanie i rozszerzenie wiedzy). Suma godzin 300 Liczba punktów ECTS: ćwiczenia: 4, wykład: 4.

Term 2025/26_L:

(in Polish) Godziny zajęć (wg planu studiów) z nauczycielem: 60 godzin (30 godzin wykład + 30 godzin ćwiczenia). Konsultacje z nauczycielem: 16 godzin. Praca własna studenta: 224 godzin (czas poświęcony na przygotowanie do zajęć, przygotowanie prac zaliczeniowych, ugruntowanie i rozszerzenie wiedzy). Suma godzin 300 Liczba punktów ECTS: ćwiczenia: 4, wykład: 4.

Term 2026/27_L:

Participation in lectures: 16 h Reading of the literature, analysis of legal acts and case law: 50 h Preparation for the examination: 34 h Total: 100 h Number of ECTS credits: 100 h / 25 h = 4 ECTS

Learning outcome code/codes

PR_W01, PR_W02, PR_W04, PR_W06, PR_W07, PR_W08, PR_W09

Type of subject

obligatory

Preliminary Requirements

Formal requirements: prior credit for the classes and passed examinations in: Civil Law – General Part, Property Law and Civil Law – Law of Obligations, first semester (general part). Substantive requirements: the student knows, correctly understands and is able to use the conceptual framework and basic institutions of the general part of civil law, property law and the general part of the law of obligations. The student has well-established knowledge of how obligational relationships arise, are performed and are extinguished, which is the necessary foundation for analysing the individual types of contracts. The student is also able to analyse doctrinally the provisions of the Civil Code and to qualify basic factual situations.

Learning outcomes

The lecture pursues learning outcomes in the area of knowledge; outcomes in skills and social competences are pursued in the classes.
EW1 (PR_W01) — The student defines the specific concepts and characterises the legal constructions of the individual nominate contracts, using correct legal terminology.
Method of verification: written examination.
EW2 (PR_W02) — The student lists and characterises the sources of regulation of the individual obligational relationships (the Civil Code, statutes outside the Code, European Union law), indicating their origins.
Method of verification: written examination.
EW3 (PR_W04) — The student explains the construction, manner of conclusion and content of the individual contracts, including the rights and duties of the parties and the special liability regimes (warranty for defects, guarantee, lack of conformity of goods with the contract), identifying the relations between types of contracts and between the special and the general part of the law of obligations.
Method of verification: written examination.
EW4 (PR_W06) — The student classifies contracts and other obligational relationships (nominate, innominate and mixed contracts; obligations of result and of best efforts), indicating the criteria of legal qualification and its effects; lists the legal information systems used to establish the state of the law and case law.
Method of verification: written examination.
EW5 (PR_W07) — The student characterises the methods of interpreting the provisions of the special part of the law of obligations and the rules for shaping the content of contracts, including the application mutatis mutandis of the provisions on nominate contracts to innominate contracts.
Method of verification: written examination.
EW6 (PR_W08) — The student explains the functions of contract regulation in transactions and the mechanisms protecting the weaker party, in particular the consumer, the tenant of premises and the policyholder, and justifies the solutions adopted by the legislature.
Method of verification: written examination.
EW7 (PR_W09) — The student indicates and discusses the directions of change in the special part of the law of obligations, including those resulting from the implementation of European Union law, and proposals de lege ferenda.
Method of verification: written examination.

Assessment criteria

Form and conditions of assessment
The lecture ends with a written examination consisting of 5 descriptive or problem questions. Admission to the examination requires a prior positive grade in the classes (at least 3.0). A pass requires correct answers to at least 3 of the 5 questions. The final grade for the lecture is based solely on the examination result.
Grading: 3 correct answers – grade 3.0; 4 correct answers – grade 4.0; 5 correct answers – grade 5.0. Grades 3.5 and 4.5 are awarded where, respectively, the fourth or the fifth answer is only partially correct. Fewer than 3 correct answers – grade 2.0.
The resit examination is held under the same rules.

General grade descriptors (applied to each learning outcome EW verified by the examination)
Grade 2.0 — the student has not achieved the learning outcome: does not know the basic concepts and institutions covered by the outcome.
Grade 3.0 — the student knows the basic concepts and institutions in general outline, but is unable to indicate the relations between them or to place them in a broader systemic context.
Grade 3.5 — the student knows the concepts and institutions to a satisfactory degree and notices the relations between them, but analyses them in a reproductive manner.
Grade 4.0 — the student knows and understands the concepts and institutions, correctly indicates their systemic relations and the current tendencies de lege lata.
Grade 4.5 — the student demonstrates good, systematised knowledge, moves freely among the institutions and refers to selected case law and scholarly views.
Grade 5.0 — the student demonstrates complete, systematised knowledge, independently and critically assesses the regulation with reference to the case law of the Supreme Court and legal scholarship, and formulates assessments de lege ferenda.

Learning outcomes verified: EW1 (PR_W01), EW2 (PR_W02), EW3 (PR_W04), EW4 (PR_W06), EW5 (PR_W07), EW6 (PR_W08), EW7 (PR_W09) – as described in the field "Learning outcomes".

Bibliography

Required reading:
Z. Radwański, J. Panowicz-Lipska, M. Lemkowski, K. Mularski, Zobowiązania – część szczegółowa, 16th ed., C.H. Beck, Warszawa 2026 (or a later edition).

Supplementary reading:
A. Brzozowski, J. Jastrzębski, M. Kaliński, W.J. Kocot, E. Skowrońska-Bocian, Zobowiązania. Część szczegółowa, 4th ed., Wolters Kluwer, Warszawa 2023 (or a later edition);
W. Czachórski, A. Brzozowski, M. Safjan, E. Skowrońska-Bocian, Zobowiązania. Zarys wykładu, 11th ed., Wolters Kluwer, Warszawa 2009;
J. Rajski (ed.), System Prawa Prywatnego, vol. 7, Prawo zobowiązań – część szczegółowa, 4th ed., C.H. Beck, Warszawa 2018 (or a later edition);
J. Panowicz-Lipska (ed.), System Prawa Prywatnego, vol. 8, Prawo zobowiązań – część szczegółowa, 2nd ed., C.H. Beck, Warszawa 2011 (or a later edition);
E. Gniewek, P. Machnikowski (eds), Kodeks cywilny. Komentarz, 12th ed., C.H. Beck, Warszawa 2025 (or a later edition);
K. Pietrzykowski (ed.), Kodeks cywilny, vol. II, Komentarz. Art. 450–1088. Przepisy wprowadzające, 10th ed., C.H. Beck, Warszawa 2020 (or a later edition);
G. Bieniek, H. Ciepła, S. Dmowski, J. Gudowski, K. Kołakowski, M. Sychowicz, T. Wiśniewski, C. Żuławska, Komentarz do Kodeksu cywilnego. Księga trzecia. Zobowiązania, vols I–II, LexisNexis, Warszawa 2011;
J. Rajski, Prawo o kontraktach w obrocie gospodarczym, Warszawa 2002.

Legal acts: ustawa z dnia 23 kwietnia 1964 r. – Kodeks cywilny (Book Three, Titles XI–XXXVII) – as currently in force; ustawa z dnia 30 maja 2014 r. o prawach konsumenta; ustawa z dnia 21 czerwca 2001 r. o ochronie praw lokatorów, mieszkaniowym zasobie gminy i o zmianie Kodeksu cywilnego; ustawa z dnia 29 sierpnia 1997 r. – Prawo bankowe (as regards the credit contract, the bank account and the bank guarantee); case law of the Supreme Court indicated during the course.

Term 2025/26_L:

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Notes

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Additional information

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Law - part-time master studies

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