Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.58565/vda.3.1.1
Archival material created by the Land Registry Department of the District Court in Zadar
Ivica Ražov
; State Archives in Zadar, Zadar, Croatia
Abstract
During the second Austrian and Italian administration, there were two courts of first instance competent for land registry affairs and operating in Zadar – the District Court (Tribunale provinciale) and the City Court (Giudizio distrettuale), both as district courts (Pretura urbana); the former had local jurisdiction over the city area, and the latter over the district area. With the establishment of other district courts, especially with the arrival of the new Italian government, the local jurisdiction changed. Since 1881, land surveys had been carried out in cadastral municipalities and the first land registers were compiled in the Kingdom of Dalmatia, and they are still used today. In 1926, the materials belonging to the Land Registry Department of the District Court in Zadar (records, title deeds, land registry files, and directories and registers) partially reached the town of Biograd na Moru, owing this to the “division of the archives” between the Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. With the abolition of the District Court in Biograd, the materials were delivered in 1949 to the archives of the current Municipal Court in Zadar, and in 1977 to the Historical Archives in Zadar at the time. The collection of documents was stored at the Land Registry Department of the Municipal Court in Zadar until 2021, when it was handed over to the State Archives in Zadar. In the land registry files, you can find information about bequests, sales, settlements, promissory notes, court cases, foreclosures, agrarian decisions, as well as various sketches and land measurements. The paper is based on relevant literature and the description of series and individual documents so that users and archive staff can identify and search them more easily.
Keywords
District Court in Zadar; District Court in Biograd; land registry files; collection of documents; second Austrian administration in Dalmatia; Italian administration in a part of Dalmatia
Hrčak ID:
293343
URI
Publication date:
24.2.2023.
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