Metadata: District Court Šabac
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Inter-Municipal Historical Archives “Šabac“
- Holding institution (official language):
- Међуопштински историјски архив „Шабац (Međuopštinski istorijski arhiv „Šabac“)
- Postal address:
- Vojvode Mišića 18, 15 000 Šabac, Republic of Serbia
- Phone number:
- (+381) 15 354 992
- Web address:
- https://arhivsabac.org.rs/
- Email:
- arhivsabac@gmail.com
- Reference number:
- MOIAS-ŠOS
- Title:
- District Court Šabac
- Title (official language):
- Шабачки окружни суд
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Court Šabac
- Date(s):
- 1805/1944
- Language:
- Serbian
- German
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 29 linear metres (9 administrative books and 186 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- This collection represent one of the most important archival fonds in the Archives. It covers the period 1805-1944. It includes records related to Jews from Šabac and other parts of Serbia from the beginning of the 19th century onwards. The oldest document which is associated with Jews was the communication of the Belgrade Court which requested the Court in Šabac to find the Jew Jećim, who was indebted to Asan Aga, the Turk. A file dated 16 January 1833 recorded a certain Jećim Bohor associated with some financial debts. In May 1833 the Belgrade Court requested the Court in Šabac to confirm whether a certain Jew from Zemun had paid the customs fee for the cones he had bought in Šabac in 1832. The letter of the Belgrade Court was accompanied by the original request of Solomon Halfon from Belgrade to deliver the debt money, collected from Laza Dakelja, to Joca Miličanac. Enclosed with that request was the decree of the Prince Miloš that every court, at the request of Solomon Halfon, should find his debtor and collect the debt. There is also a communication of the Belgrade Court by which the Court in Šabac was requested to forward to Belgrade Lazar Limber, the Jew, accompanied by guards. The communication revealed that Limber from Šabac left first for Loznica and then went to Zvornik. The report of the District Court in Šabac was dispatched in 1835 to Stevan Magazinović in Lešnica related to the relationship with the neighbours across the Drina River and with the Turks in the town, in which a certain Mušika and his brother, who lived in Šabac, were quoted.
- Archival history:
- Records were transferred to the Archives in 1952 from the District Court Šabac (Accession Inventory Ref. No. 1) and in 1969 from the State Archives of Serbia. Classification and arrangement of the documentation began in 1952.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The judicial system was established in 1846 and prescribed the existence of district courts, as first instance courts, composed of a president and three members. The jurisdiction of the District Court in Šabac encompassed the territories of the city of Šabac and the District of Mačva in the cases of all kinds of crimes, offences and civil litigation along with the commercial and other criminal acts committed in the district. The Court was accountable to the Ministry of Justice.
- Access points: locations:
- Šabac
- Subject terms:
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Debt
- Legal records
- System of arrangement:
- The collection was arranged according to the principle of free provenance by the protocol codes and chronologically within the thematic groups.
- Finding aids:
- An analytical card-file inventory was compiled for the records dated 1844 to 1944. Detailed file contents were compiled for the period 1805 to 1939.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Ivan Dosković; Inter-Municipal Historical Archives “Šabac“; 2021