Metadata: Royal Notaries of Pančevo
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Historical Archives of Pančevo
- Holding institution (official language):
- Историјски архив у Панчеву (Istorijski arhiv u Pančevu)
- Postal address:
- Nemanjina 7, 26 000 Pančevo, Republic of Serbia
- Phone number:
- (+381) 13 317 344
- Web address:
- https://www.arhivpancevo.org.rs/
- Email:
- arhivsek@panet.rs
- Reference number:
- F. 29
- Title:
- Royal Notaries of Pančevo
- Title (official language):
- Kраљевски јавни бележници Панчево
- Creator/accumulator:
- Royal Notaries of Pančevo
- Date(s):
- 1876/1944
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Serbian
- Extent:
- 7 linear metres (85 administrative books and 59 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The documents of the Royal Notaries of Pančevo was created in the period from 1876 until 1944. They comprise records related to the Town of Pančevo and the neighbouring places Banatsko Novo Selo, Brestovac, Dolovo, Borča, Glogonj, Ivanovo, Jabuka, Omoljica, Kačarevo, Sefkerin, Starčevo and Vojlovica. The scope of work of the notaries was compiling public documents and wills, issuing certificates, safe-keeping documents and valuables, as well as executing orders brought by the court or other authorities and performing certain tasks in probate proceedings. The notary offices performed activities important for the life of the inhabitants of Pančevo and surrounding places, including for Jews. Their records provide details on legal affairs, indicated in various certificates, wills and property documentation, verified documents and statements.
- Archival history:
- The documents were transferred from the last public notary Dr Ignjat Mihajlović.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The scope of notary offices in Vojvodina was regulated by the Hungarian Legal Article XXXV of 1874, with amendments adopted in 1886, and later by the appropriate acts brought by the legal authorities of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The Hungarian Law of 1874 prescribed that a Hungarian subject who had complete command of the official language, without a criminal record, could be appointed a public notary. The candidate was obliged to pass the bar or judicial practical exam and to have a three-year notary practice, at least two of which after passing the exam. A public notary could not perform the duties of a member of Parliament, practice as a lawyer, a full or associate professor or a teacher at the same time, nor could he hold any other (state, church, municipal) public office. Notaries were appointed by the Minister of Justice on the basis of a previously announced competition. After the appointment, the notary was obliged to deposit the appropriate amount of bail within three months, to take an oath, to work out the official notary seal and to inform the competent district court on the date of opening their office.
The scope of work of the public notary consisted of: compiling public documents and wills, issuing certificates, safe-keeping of documents and valuables, as well as executing orders received from the court or guardianship authorities and performing certain tasks in probate proceedings. He had the right to perform those tasks in the territory of the jurisdiction of the district court where the seat of his office was located. The public notary was not allowed to reside outside the place where his office was located, nor to perform the duty of notary public in matters in which he or one of his family members had a personal interest.
In December 1920, the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes passed the Decree on Amendments to the Law on Royal Notaries for the territory of Banat, Bačka and Baranja. The Unified Law on Notaries was passed on 11 September 1930 and contained 253 paragraphs divided into 15 chapters. Notaries were appointed, according to §1, by the state authorities and given the character of persons of public trust in order to compile and send public documents on legal affairs, statements and facts on which rights are based, and to receive documents for safekeeping or money and papers of value for the purpose of handing over to other persons or authorities and, finally, to carry out, by order of courts or other public authorities, proceedings which may have been entrusted to them by law. Notary documents were declared public documents if all important formalities prescribed by the law were compiled in the course of their compilation and issuance. Notaries were authorised to work on the preparation of private documents at the request of the interested parties, as well as to represent the parties in uncontested matters before the courts and other authorities and to submit submissions as proxies. From 1945, the courts undertook the work of the royal notaries.
- Subject terms:
- Legal records
- Wills
- System of arrangement:
- The archival arrangement is in progress.
- Finding aids:
- The following finding aids were compiled: Catalogues of books and boxes; The Archival Fonds and Collections in the Archives of SFRY, SAP Vojvodina; Sremski Karlovci, 1977; Guide Through the Archival Fonds in the Historical Archives of Pančevo, Sremski Karlovci, 1973.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Smiljka Vučur; Historical Archives of Pančevo; 2020
