Administrative legal borders run along rivers

Abstract

Presented in this article is the problem of administrative legal borders1, run along rivers, concerns essentially Polish conditions. Nevertheless, taking into account the aim of the article – a river, part of geographical space, being almost everywhere, one can assume that the article is universal to some extent. It means, that conclusions resulting from it can be applied also to other countries. Administrative borders are derived from cadastral boundaries. Yet, the majority of these boundaries were determined during establishing cadastre. It took place in the 70-ties of the last century. In turn, the determination of borders of Poland’s territory took place in various acts, issued by the Cabinet of Poland. It has only been done by including communes (being cadastral units at the same time) to bigger units of Poland’s territory division. The resulting conclusion is, that accurate determination of administrative border (as a series of coordinates of monuments of administrative line division), and especially this border which was determined by a river, is not possible because of lack of suitable documentation. For this reason, such a border is called “border according to real status in the eld”. It is not fully reliable and moreover not accurate. Thus, one should tend to such a situation that all revealed boundaries in cadastre will be “legal boundaries” that is such boundaries which have suitable documentation, which are reliable and properly accurate. Yet, ful lling such demand is especially di cult for these speci c cadastral boundaries which can’t be established in the eld. They are, rst of all, cadastral boundaries which have been determined along rivers, being at the same time administrative borders.