ПИТАЊЕ УВОЂЕЊА УСТАНОВЕ ЈАВНИХ БЕЛЕЖНИКА У ЈУГОСЛОВЕНСКОЈ КРАЉЕВИНИ

Abstract

The paper deals with the issue of introducing the institution of public notaries in the Yugoslav Kingdom, with a special focus on the attempt to introduce it in Serbia. Namely, with the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, a single state was created in which legal diversity also prevailed in the matter of public notaries. In other words, the institution of public notaries did not exist in the territory of Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, while it did exist in other parts of the newly created state. Therefore, at the very beginning of the process of unification of law in the Yugoslav Kingdom, the issue of its survival, i.e. the expansion of the institution of public notaries to the entire newly created state, was raised. However, although the professional community was fairly unanimous that the institution of notaries should be retained in the regions where it already exists and that it should be gradually introduced in those areas where it did not previously exist, the adoption of the Law on Notaries was delayed. Thus, the Law on Notaries was adopted only in 1930. However, although it was adopted as a Law for the entire Kingdom of Yugoslavia, it did not lead to the introduction of the institution of notaries in Serbia (or in some other regions of the Kingdom). Therefore, the paper will analyze the process of adopting the Law, as well as the question of what caused the introduction of the institution of notaries in Serbia.