Metadata: Local state public notary office of Carei
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Române. Direcţia Judeţeană Satu Mare
- Postal address:
- Satu Mare, Str. 1 Decembrie 1918, 13, Satu Mare, 440010, jud. Satu Mare
- Phone number:
- 0261-711102
- Reference number:
- Fond 54
- Title:
- Local state public notary office of Carei
- Title (official language):
- Notariatul de Stat Local Carei
- Creator/accumulator:
- Local state public notary office of Carei
- Date(s):
- 1866/1920
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 192 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This fonds comprises 192 files of the state public notary office of Carei issued between 1866 and 1920, containing contracts for sales of immoveable goods, donations, wills and mortgages, cadastral sheets and petitions from Carei and neighbouring localities. Many of these records refer to persons of Jewish origin, reflecting the existence in Carei before the First World War of an important Jewish community with a significant role in the economic life of the town and its surroundings and who benefitted from the services of the state public notary office.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was originally held by the state public notary office of Carei. It was transferred to the Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives in 1975, where it was inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The institution of the public notary first appeared in the medieval period as institutions for authenticating records and issuing publicly recognised copies and duplicates in the Kingdom of Hungary. They disappeared in Hungary after the fall of the kingdom in 1526, but continued to exist in the Transylvanian Principality. The modern notarial institution was established in Hungary and Transylvania after the 1848/1849 revolution by an Austrian imperial decree of 1858. In Hungary this was abolished two years later, while in Transylvania it remained valid until 1875. The Hungarian Parliament in Budapest adopted Law XXXV concerning the institution of the public notary in 1874. This law was modified in 1896 but remained valid until the end of the First World War, when Romanian legislation was introduced concerning this institution. Until the First World War, public notaries were organised in notarial chambers instituted on a territorial basis and the membership of public notaries in these institutions was compulsory.
- Access points: locations:
- Carei
- Subject terms:
- Financial matters
- Legal matters
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The files of this fonds are organised by locality. Within each locality they are arranged alphabetically by the name of the person involved.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 62, held by the Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Attila Gidó (researcher, Institute for Study of National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor), 2017
