Condicile și administrarea justiției în Țara Românească în secolul al XVIII-lea
Registers and Justice Administration in Eighteenth Century Walachia

Summary/Abstract: The study discusses the problem of the relationship between the storing of information and the administration of justice in Wallachia during the 18th century. Preceded by the registers from the reign of Constantin Brâncoveanu, the 18th century registers were the outcome of the reforms of the Phanariot princes, especially of Constantine Mavrocordat and Alexander Ypsilantis. The registers were instruments of storing information with a notarial and judiciary character. Copies of documents of landholding and exemptions, private agreements regarding inheritance, money-lending, guarantees, testimonies, data regarding wrongdoers etc. and other documents related to civil and criminal lawsuits were recorded in the registers. The multiplication of the registers represented a process of centralization of information and aided the princedom in extending its sphere of intervention in society. The registers enhanced the capacity of the princely institutions to control the relationships between subjects and accelerated the process of dissociation of the institutions from the person of the officials.

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