Dolynska M. Formation and development of the notarial activities legislation in Ukraine.

The dissertation deals with the comprehensive scientific and theoretical analysis of the history of the notarial activities legislation in Ukraine as a special historical and legal process, directly associated with the historical and legal processes of formation of notarial activities as a specific type of legal activity, professionalization of the notary activities, organization, self-organization, self-administration and self-regulation of notaries’ professional corporations, indirectly connected with the establishment of legal principles and values of the notarial activities, notions about the place and role of notaries, their professional associations in the society and the state, legal traditions of the Ukrainian people. Two historical lines in the development of the notariate institution on the territory of Ukrainian lands, which constituted its two types, are distinguished: public (state) and Latin (free) notary system; and the periodization of the development of the notarial activities legislation in Ukraine, which includes four stages – canonical-civil, public-legal, Soviet and modern (public and self-controlling), is carried out.