Croatian soldiers in world war I: declaration of death 'in Absentia'

Autor: Mirela Krešić
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Časopis za suvremenu povijest
Volume 49
Issue 2
ISSN: 1848-9079
0590-9597
DOI: 10.22586/csp.v49i2.30
Popis: U radu se rekonstruira i analizira normativni okvir instituta proglašenja nestalih osoba umrlima sadržan u Zakonu o proglašenju mrtvima (1918.) Hrvatsko-slavonskoga sabora. Dopuna normativne analize rješenja su sadržana u dostupnim spisima Stola sedmorice i Sudbenoga stola u Zagrebu iz Hrvatskoga državnog arhiva te Državnoga arhiva u Zagrebu kao i objavljena sudska praksa iz međuratnoga razdoblja. Pritom je autoričina namjera bila utvrditi pretpostavke pokretanja postupka proglašenja nestale osobe umrlom prema spomenutom zakonu u situacijama kada je nestala osoba bila vojnik iz Prvoga svjetskog rata s hrvatsko-slavonskoga područja, tijek postupka, ali i moguće nejasnoće koje su se pritom javljale, osobito kada se taj postupak vodio radi pokretanja ostavinskoga postupka.
Many Croatian soldiers participated in the war of 1914 – 1918, mostly fighting on the side of Austria-Hungary. Some of them lost their lives, some returned to their families after the end of the war, but there were also those who disappeared without trace in the confusion of the war. A missing person isn’t necessarily dead, but the fact that it’s not known whether he or she is alive or dead creates uncertainty in their family as well as legal uncertainty. It is precisely to eliminate such legal uncertainty that the legal system provides for the presumption of death, which generates the same legal effect as death. On the territory of Croatia and Slavonia, the process of declaring a missing person dead was regulated through the Declaration of Death Act (1918). Declaring missing soldiers dead had various legal effects. The regulation of the missing person’s position regarding inheritance can be considered the most important of these. Therefore, this paper, based on the above-mentioned legal framework and with insight into archival documents, attempts to determine how and under which conditions the procedure of declaring missing soldiers dead was conducted as well as how this influenced the conducting of probate proceedings, regardless of whether the missing person was a testator and/or an heir. In case the competent court issued a final ruling to declare a missing person dead, the date of death established by court ruling was considered a contestable legal presumption, where the ruling had an exclusively declaratory character.
Databáze: OpenAIRE