HR-DAPA-540 Notaries of Poreč 1852/1944 [1947] Summary Inventory

Abstract

The centuries-long tradition of notaryship on the territory of Istria was terminated in 1821 pursuant to the Austrian Decree regarding the narrowing down of the scope of notarial activities exclusively to the level of drafting protests of a bill adopted in 1871. Following a Regulation adopted in 1850 in the Habsburg Monarchy the revitalization of notaryship was initiated and the scope of the activities of notaries was extended to reinstate the scope of activities before 1821. In this period, at the example of the French Loi contenat organisation du notariat, notaries had to keep a continuous number of documents throughout the period of activity of one notarial district together with the accessory office records – registers and indices. After the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, the Kingdom of Italy retained the Austrian notarial system until 1929, when the 1913 Italian Notary Act entered into force in Istria and remained in force until the end of World War II. In this period notaries kept a separate current number for documents among living and a separate number for wills. They also kept separate office records. The Archives Fond No. 540 of the State Archives in Pazin, Notaries of Poreč, was produced by six notaries active between 1852 and 1944. The fond was arranged in the way that the archives belonging to each of the notaries makes a separate unit within which subunits were formed.