Abstract

The issue discussed in the publication deserves attention for many reasons. It causes discrepancies in judicial decisions and is strictly connected with the need to clarify several legal issues (such as the civil-law aspects of regulatory proceedings under religious laws); it undoubtedly also arouses considerable public sentiment. It requires some historical intuition since it forces out evaluation of the application of regulations dating several decades back (the Decree of 8 March 1946 on Abandoned and Post-German Property) from the current perspective. In addition, the issue on hand is linked with the problems of nationalization and reprivatisation.