Penal Law Protection of Money and Securities Circulation in Poland After World War I: Selected Issues

In 20th-century economic relations, money became the basic means involved in all kinds of trade, hence the need for its increased protection. First, money came to be seen as an expression of individual wealth. Second, protection of money required the organisational and economic interests of the state itself, so that the penal codifications of capitalist countries treated protection of money as a vital economic and social factor. The article presents the development of the legal status in the field of punishment of acts violating the money circulation and securities transactions in Poland from 1918 to the present.