Ratio of legal status of the state and private notaries

Purpose: A research of the comparative characteristic of the notaries working in the state notary office and the notaries who are engaged in private practice for the purpose of detection of features of legislative regulation of their activity. Methodology: The author used comparative and legal and legallistic methods. Results: In article similarity and distinction in legal status of the notaries working in the state notary office are analyzed, and the notaries who are engaged in private practice the characteristic of their functioning is given. Distinctions are established by the following criteria: appointment to the post, the activity termination, appointment to the post of the assistant notary, membership in notarial chamber, financing of notarial activity, payment of notarial actions and other services rendered at implementation of notarial activity, property responsibility of the notary, insurance of activity of the notary, control of execution of rules of notarial office-work and professional duties. Novelty/originality/value: Article has the scientific value as represents a complex comparative and legal research of legal status of two legal forms of activity of a notariate.