Review article
https://doi.org/10.31141/zrpfs.2019.56.133.685
The establishment and legal nature of public notary deposit
Neven Kočila
Abstract
In the exercise of their profession, the notary public in the Republic of Croatia offers the specific service of the depository of funds, securities and documents by or on behalf of their clients. This service of notary public has become more frequently used in the specific cases where the holding of entrusted funds, securities or documents is necessary to ensure the key obligation, arising from the private transaction between parties, is adequately fulfilled. The specific aim of this paper is to present the legal nature and possible ways of setting up a notary public deposit. From one point of view, the deposit shows a visible feature of an agreement conluded between notary public and client(s) with his specific duties and rights. From the other the role of notary public in deposit function presents a typically general official duty to perform as a trust person within the scope prescribed by Notary Public Act. The medial part of the paper focuses to the possible answers of this key question using the method of legal analysis of legislation, the linguistic approach, teleological interpretation of legal provisions and data compilation using the available legal literature. About the legal nature of this institute depends on which national legal rules should be applied to an eventual dispute. The paper also gives a comparative review from Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Russia and Estonia using comparative research method.
Keywords
notary public; notary deposit; lease contract; mandate contract; contract of deposit; general official duty of notary public; court deposit
Hrčak ID:
225701
URI
Publication date:
27.9.2019.
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