https://doi.org/10.31261/SPiP.2007.04.06
It is not accidental that a document and office appeared on the Polish lands in 13th century. There is a close relationship between changes in mentality and legal-public culture of the society of that time and both the development of documents and the establishment of the organisational and functional basis of offices issuing it. The Duchy of Opole is regarded as a model one in that respect. From 13th century only the final products of the offices - documents were preserved, but without a doubt, location of the cities and villages, separating properties, estimating earnings, establishing the degree of realisation of different liabilities must have involved forming other types of act documentation. The office of the prince of Opole was not organised until 1246 and was not only a part of court of the ruling prince where literate clerks sporadically wrote documents. It constituted a separate office with not a very high degree of organisation in which given people (notariuses) professionally dealt with the office work. We do not know much about the activities of this office as we lack broader insight to the sources. The growing importance of a document in social-economic life and political reorganisation of the cities resulted in organisation of private and borough offices. The earliest traces of their activities date back to 1250-1264 (Mroczek from Pogorzel’s office) and at about 1273 (office in Bytom). Like in the case of the prince’s office our knowledge about them is limited by modest sources. However, the very fact of their existence and activities undertaken by the office constitutes an important testimony of the document entering legal and public functioning of Upper-Silesian community.
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