A notary and civil procedure

The aim of the thesis is to analyze the role of the notary in the Czech legal order placing emphasis on the link between his activities and the civil process. The thesis is divided into three chapters. The opening chapter deals with the history of notary office and presents and clarifies the basic notary principles. It is also dedicated to the scope of their professional organisation. Chapter two represents the most extensive part of the thesis, where the relationship between notary and civil procedure is clarified. The first subchapter deals with the role of notary as a court commissioner within inheritance proceedings. While performing acts in the inheritance proceedings, his activities resemble to the field of activities of a judge, because notary carries out the whole proceedings from the moment of the authorisation given by court of first instance, including the decision on the merits. The second subchapter is dedicated to the role of notary while drawing up notarial deeds under which executory proceeding can be directly ordered and carried out. If the notarial deed meets all the requirements by law and contains the clause of execution, it represents a public document, which works in the executory proceedings as a mode for execution thanks to which the civil procedure can be skipped. This subchapter..