The role of civil notaries in the development of jurisprudence

Abstract

During the three-quarters of a century of the operation of the professional order, the notaries of the bourgeois era continuously enriched Hungarian jurisprudence with their works. Bálint Ökröss stands out among them, who wrote both private law and civil procedure law works. An important stage of his work as an author was the founding of the Jogtudományi Közlöny, the standard legal journal that still exists today. Among the notaries, he was the only one elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The codification of civil law that developed at the beginning of the 20th century became the subject of the studies and monographs of many notary legal writers, such as Fülöp Weinmann, Lajos Baditz and Szigfrid Holitscher. In his works, Béla Baranyai dealt with the inheritance procedure and the role of the notary in preventive legal protection. The pinnacle of László Fekete's creative work is his two-volume monograph Ars Notarialis. With the exception of Bálint Ökröss, the other notary legal writers regularly wrote articles for the notary's professional journal, while among them Szigfrid Holitscher and László Fekete were also the editors-in-chief of the notary's journal.