The article focuses on the territorial jurisdiction of the Lutheran ecclesiastical court in interwar Poland. This court had its seat in Warsaw and ruled according to the laws of central Poland. Until the end of 1945, the laws in force in Poland were the 19th – century statutes. They had been enacted by the neighbouring countries (Austria, Russia and Prussia) that partitioned the Polish territory in the second half of the 18th century. Poland did not have a unified legal system after the restoration of independence. Different parts of Poland had different regulation of marriage. The differences concerned especially divorce for converts – Catholics after conversion to Protestantism. Only the law in force on the territory of the former Russian partition provided for the jurisdiction of ecclesiastical courts in matrimonial matters. Rulings of ecclesiastical courts against persons residing in other parts of Poland were the cause of legal disputes. Doubts about the jurisdiction of the Lutheran ecclesiastical court were removed by regulating the relationship of the Polish state to the Lutheran church in 1936.
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