| Vjekoslav Škarica | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1863-12-24)24 December 1863 Kaštel Stari, Dalmatia, Austrian Empire (now Croatia) |
| Died | 13 January 1945(1945-01-13) (aged 81) Split, Federated State of Croatia, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) |
| Occupation(s) | Politician, lawyer |
Vjekoslav Škarica (24 December 1863 – 13 January 1945) was a Croatian and Yugoslavian politician and lawyer. He specialised in the maritime law.
Following the end of World War I and the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, the National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs appointed Škarica a member of the three-member provincial government of the former Austro-Hungarian crown land of Dalmatia, along with Ivo Krstelj and Josip Smodlaka (with deputies Prvislav Grisogono, Uroš Desnica, and Jerko Machiedo). The provincial government administered the region in the run-up to the arrival of Allies of World War I and their occupation of the eastern Adriatic in 1918.
In 1919, Škarica drew up, on his own initiative a proposal for the Maritime Act of the newly established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later renamed Yugoslavia). He was appointed a member of a committee of experts tasked with drawing up the Yugoslav Maritime Act in 1937. Some sources credit Škarica with the introduction of the Croatian legal term brodar, meaning the ship operator.
References
- ^ Vuković 2019, p. 197–198.
- Cukrov 2013, pp. 98–100.
- Vuković 2019, p. 198–200.
Sources
- Cukrov, Mladen (2013). "Admiral Philip Andrews u Splitu" [Allied Peacekeeping Mission in Split After the First World War and the Role of the U.S. Admiral Philip Andrews]. Kulturna baština (in Croatian). 39 (1). Split: Društvo prijatelja kulturne baštine: 97–112. ISSN 0351-0557.
- Vuković, Ante (2019). "Splićanin dr. Vjekoslav Škarica: autor osebujnog pojma pomorskog prava "brodar"" [Dr. Vjekoslav Škarica: Native of Split and the Author of an Idiosyncratic term in Maritime Law – Brodar (Eng. Ship's Operator)]. Kulturna baština (in Croatian) (45). Split: Društvo prijatelja kulturne baštine: 197–210. ISSN 0351-0557.