Unificarea juridică și experiențele sale
Legal unification and its experiences

Summary/Abstract: Legal unification – judiciary, legislative, and regarding the legal professions – has played an important part in the consolidation of the unity of the state and has become a major pursuit of interwar Romania. If the unification of judicial organization and the regime of attorneys has been realized rather quickly, given the specificities of the issues, the one regarding legislation had to last for decades: in 1928, it was done in Bessarabia, in 1938 in Bukovina, and in 1943 in Transylvania. The integration of Dobrogea in the Romanian legal space has been a particular juridical experience, taking into account that it did not solely concern adopting a unitary set of laws, but passing from a legal system (Islamic) to another (Roman-Germanic). Regarding the concrete action, it involved on the one hand by a gradual extension of the legislation of the Old Kingdom, and on the other, by re-codifying, adopting new codes, among which only the Criminal Code and Criminal Proceedings Code entered into force on January 1st, 1937. In this vast process of interwar legal unification, a great part was played by the courts of appeal, as jurisdictions whose activity was focused in expressing at the level of regional specificities the national, unifying element. Three major experiences of this process: Dobrogea, the Cernăuţi Court of Appeals (north of the country) and the Oradea Court of Appeals (on the west) will follow bellow, in separate studies.

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