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Many legal actions from the early 19th century were new issues related to the adoption of the Code of Napoleon, which greatly expanded the scope of activities of notaries. Undoubtedly, this situation could lead to instability in the nomination of a consistent set of notarial contracts. The analysis of texts from Łuków shows that many species of acts had not yet specialized in one notarial activity, which meant that housed / combined in itself some legal forms. Synonymous names of some contracts might also result from imprecise notarial activities, with perhaps their source in the first stage of communication in which they defined a form of action. Nineteenth-century notaries called contracts too general, as compared to a legal transaction, a wide variety of agreement sets they defined as statements, intermediate statements, voluntary statements. Sometimes a subject area in the notarial acts of the early 19th century was clearly defined in the final formula.