Przestępstwa przeciwko rodzinie w Kodeksie Kar Głównych i Poprawczych z 1847 r.

The study comprises an introduction, main body, and a conclusion. In the introductory part presented is the issue of Code of Chief and Correctional Penalties introduced in Autonomous Polish Kingdom by the decree of 1 January, 1847, in place of the current Polish Penal Law of 1818. The author discusses the principles underlying the nature of crime, punishment, responsibility, and a system of penalties which is to act as a deterrent. The article presents the state of research, sources and literature of the subject, as well as the aim of the study. The article comprises three parts. They deal with offences against life, matrimony and parental authority, caretaker's authority, and legal guardianship. The discussed offences against life include: patricide, killing of a family member, killing of a pregnant woman, infanticide, abortion, abandonment of a child, and suicide. The part that deals with offences against matrimony contains three spheres of offences and misdemeanours, often closely linked with the civil norms of marital law: punishable violation of essential conditions of entering into marriage, punishable violation of legal impediments to marriage, criminal responsibility of parents, guardians and priests for the violation of legal impediments to marriage, and the abuse of marital rights and obligations, as well as sexual offences against family. The last part of the article deals with offences against parental authority, caretaker's authority and guardianship, listing different types of authority abuse, offences committed by children against their parents, and abuse of authority by caretakers and guardians. The conclusion contains a succinct appraisal and an analysis of the issues in focus.