Spór o korporacyjną (spółdzielczą), obligacyjną czy mieszaną naturę prawną spółdzielczych stosunków mieszkaniowych w prawie polskim na tle prawa niemieckiego

The article concerns issues of legal nature of legal relation between a housing cooperative and its member resulting from building agreements and agreement of establishing cooperative residents’ right to accommodation. They can have prospectively corporative (cooperative), obligational or mixed legal nature. In my opinion, crucial for further considerations in this scope is the distinction included in German writing between freedom of contracting and freedom of establishing associations. Therefore, vital importance has the issue which of the freedoms underlines legal relations between a housing cooperative and its member. The further part of the article includes discussing arguments vital at assessment of the legal nature of discussed legal relations. The article closes with conclu- sions that the discussed relations are characterized by cooperative character and therefore they are not typical obligational relations.