The process of collectivization of agriculture was imposed by the communist authorities after the end of the second world war. Contemporary authorities made an attempt to the compulsory change of the agricultural areas agrarian structure, through the agricultural lands integration into collective forms. These forms arose on the basis of already archaic provisions of law, however under the modified form, are functioning to this day in the free market economy.Issues considered in the article pertain to agricultural farms coming into existence and functioning in the period of the People's Republic of Poland. First of all, the agricultural cooperatives and state-owned collective farms were analysed, paying special attention to legal and geodetic regulations describing them. Transition from the socioeconomic communist system to the democracy caused the need for the new institutions introduction, returning unlawfully seized lands and also creating right legal notions adapted for implemented political changes. With reference to the above, there was a need for either adaptation or creation of legal documents which would settle this problem. Authors of this work made an attempt to analyse and assess on the issue. ...
