Lawyers’ Association of Sălaj county

Collection

Holding institution:: Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Sălaj County

Holding institution (official language):: Arhivele Naţionale Româna, Direcţia judeţeană Sălaj

Postal address:: Tudor Vladimirescu Str. No. 26A, Zalău 450067, judeţul Sălaj, Romania

Scope and content:: The fonds contains documents issued by the Sălaj County Association of Lawyers from 1911–49, including records of the administrative activities of the association, disciplinary cases against members who violated the regulations of the association or were the object of reclamations by clients, personal files of lawyers in the association and judicial assistance given by the association to its members. Jewish-related material includes applications from Jewish lawyers to join the association, certificates of membership and practice fulfilled in the offices of the members, lists and receipts of payment of membership dues and disciplinary procedures against Jewish lawyers. Examples include file 2: Adalbert Löb; file 20: Ludovic Fischer; file 22: Bernard Weisz; file 29: Adolf Mayer; file 41: Samuil Keller; file 43: Adalbert Rosenfeld; file 51: Zoltan Rosenberg.

Archival history:: The inventoried fonds is preserved in the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Sălaj County.

Administrative/biographical history:: Associations of lawyers were organised in every county in accordance with a law of 1864 prescribing a minimum number of ten members. The law was modified in 1907 and again in 1923, when the new Romanian regime instituted the Union of Romanian Lawyers as the administrative body for all the county associations. The Sălaj County association was based in the court building in Zalău and operated under rules established 1923 and modified in 1931, 1932 and 1942. It had a dean, a council and a general assembly, and in 1942 established the categories of lawyers admitted, which excluded Jewish members. The communist regime replaced associations of lawyers with colleges of lawyers for each county in 1949.

Access points: persons/families:: Fischer, Ludovic; Keller, Samuil; Löb, Adalbert; Mayer, Adolf; Rosenberg, Zoltan; Rosenfeld, Adalbert; Weisz, Bernard

Finding aids:: Inventory No. 811 of the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Sălaj County.

Yerusha Network member:: Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities

Author of the description:: Anton Dörner (retired researcher), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor, Cluj-Napoca), 2016