Abstract

The commented judgment concerns the limitation of claims arising from a water supply contract. The facts underlying the court’s decision date back to the time before Art. 555 of the Civil Code was amended in 2014, as a result of which it was adopted that the provisions on the sale of things apply also to water. The author challenges the opinion of the Court that before these amendments were adopted specific provisions on time limitation of claims under sales contracts could be applied to water supply contracts. He also notes that this problem is a part of a broader issue of the relations between such special provisions regarding limitation of claims and general provisions on limitation of the Polish Civil Code.