The notariat plays a considerable role as undisputable civil jurisdiction and prevention justice organ in a legal system. The problems of the notary legislation improvement does not lose its extraordinary relevance. Unfortunately the process of the notary legislation updating cannot be considered successful, in particular, because of lack of an understandable approaches to determination of the legal nature and essence of notary proceedings and, as a result, impossibility of an effective solution to the most difficult problems of the functioning of the notariat. All the above poses a need for a subsequent development of the notary proceedings doctrine and a scientific basis for the notary legislation updating to enable to get rid of the eclectic and contradictory nature of the normative work in this sector.

The aim of the article is the measuring of conformity of the Ukraine notary legislation with the general principles of the classic (latin) notariat and the elaboration of proposals and recommendations for a Ukraine notary legislation improvement in connection with the necessity of its harmonization with the international principles of the classic (latin) notariat.

The article analyses the issues of Ukraine notariat as the classic (latin) notariat. In that context the article discusses the main organization aspects of its modernization and legal regulation – the creation of the unified notariat, determination of the system and competence of the notarial organs, functions and status of the notariat, the payment for notary actions etc.

The author proposes to exclude local government officials from the notary system and to give them only possibility to certify wills and trusts that could be amounted to a notary certified. It has been found that the lack of limitation of notary posts number in the notarial district does not respond the main notarial functioning principles.

The article considers that a private notary is an official with state power and a specialist of free legal profession at the same time. Summing up the results, it can be concluded that notarial activity is a kind of law-enforcement, jurisdictional activity that deals with the main aspects of realization of the rights by individuals and legal persons, that is why it should be in a procedure form, balance of public and private interests. It is rationaled for the necessity of the development and adoption of the N otarial procedure code of Ukraine in accordance with the character of notary action as procedure and law-enforcement.

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Theses

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