mienia

Mienie is a Polish noun used to denote property, assets or estate that a person or entity owns or controls. In everyday language it may refer to tangible belongings as well as a broader set of rights with economic value. In legal usage the term functions as a broad umbrella term for property, especially when the focus is on ownership, possession, or value transfer.

Within Polish law, mienie is commonly subdivided into mienie ruchome (movable property) and mienie nieruchome (real estate). In family law it is used to describe the regime of property between spouses, commonly mienie wspólne (joint property) and mienie odrębne (separate property). Another common phrase is mienie publiczne or mienie Skarbu Państwa for property owned by the state or a public body.

While the term is widely understood in legal contexts, it is often interchangeable with synonyms such as własność (ownership) and majątek (estate or assets), though each term has nuanced meaning. The concept of mienie encompasses physical goods as well as rights and claims with monetary value that can be owned.