The file-creating process in notary offices from the interwar period on the example of the city of Tarnów Cover Image

Proces aktotwórczy w kancelariach notarialnych z okresu międzywojennego na przykładzie miasta Tarnowa
The file-creating process in notary offices from the interwar period on the example of the city of Tarnów

Author(s): Ewelina Kawa-Sołtys
Subject(s): History
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: notary files;notary public;Tarnów;act-making process

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to present the act-making process in notary offices in Tarnów during the interwar period. This perspective was shown based of an assessment of the professional activity of the notary, in addition, attention was paid to the changes introduced by the Act of 27 October 1933 called “the constitution of the Polish notary.” The analysis of the act-making process through the prism ofoffi ce products allowed to see the actual role of this act in the process of writing files. The key to explaining this occurrence are materials from the second branch and the Tarnów branch of the National Archives in Kraków. The article consists of three parts. The first part presents issues related of political changes affecting the work in notary offices and confronts them with documentation stored in the archives. The next part uses quantitative analysis of the actogenic aspect of office work. The last part presents research on the structure of notarial documents selected based on a representative sample. This place also compares documents from the area of the Austrian Partition before and after 1933.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 201-224
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Polish
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