Summary:

From several years now the act introducing the heritable building right has been a subject of ongoing work in the parliament. Ministry of Justice published the bill on their website: http://bip.ms.gov.pl/projekty-aktów-prawnych. According to it, the heritable building right will be a limited property right that enables the use of a real estate when simultaneously buildings or other devices, permanently associated with this ground, are owned by a different entity. It is meant to be a transferable right that may be mortgaged. The enactment of this law in Poland is thought to result in creating legal possibilities to realise important economic investments such as: flat development, installation of rail and road transportation devices as well as transmission devices on owned grounds, others. The heritable building right functions in legal systems of following countries: Germany, Great Britain, Netherlands, France, Austria, Estonia. The article aims at presentation of chosen legal solutions used in Germany in Law of the heritable building right and German Civil Code and their comparison with solutions proposed in Polish bill.