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What is the Polgári Kollégium and what does it do?
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Where did you encounter this abbreviation and this expansion of it?
The place I recall the abbreviation is the Croatia supplement to the 1913 gazetteer, where it stands for politikai község "municipality" (more literally "political community").
Polgári is "civil" (usually as opposed to egyházi "of the church, ecclesiastic").
Kollégium is modernly most often "dorm" (for either high school or college students), but it's also used for the Református Kollégium in Debrecen, where it means the school as well as its dorms. The dictionary adds "lecture series, seminar" (at a college or university).
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The Polgári Kollégium is one of the Kollégiumok of the Kúria and apparently issues legal opinions. What exactly is it, who makes it up, how many and what other Kollégia are there nowadays as well as in 1950? Is it a court, a committee or what?
Lásd: https://lexikon.uni-nke.hu/szocikk/kollegiumi-velemenyjog/
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This is from the index number of a legal document from the 1950s. The document, which gives a legal decision from a district court has an index number which begins with "Pk." followed by a number, the year and then the szám. So, I don't think that it stands for polgári kollégium (which, now that I search further is PK.) or for polgária törvénykönyv, which is Ptk., but for some other könyv found in a district court, as in: Járásbíróság p_____ könyv. If you search for "járásbíróság Pk.", you will find numerous districts use this abbreviation.
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After all, maybe it is perkönyv. Is there any comprehensive website to search for abbreviations? I am so tired of word lists and limited glossaries.
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Oy, the legal profession the world over only pretends to use the same language as the people around them…
Definition 7 in the dictionary I linked is the "council, advisory committee" meaning of kollégium, which appears to basically exist in English, too (https://www.thefreedictionary.com/collegium), but mostly for talking about Communist governments — which makes sense, given that the Hungarian dictionary notes that the definition only applies after 1945.
Ooh, found an abbreviation dictionary that defines P.k. in a legal context: nem peres eljárásban hozott határozat "a decision brought in a non-litigious case". (No, it doesn't say what it expands to. And no, I don't know what the heck a non-litigious case could possibly be.)
Oh, the search at http://www.abbrevia.hu includes a "Hungarian legal terms" option, which gives the same polgári nemperes ügy/határozat for Pk. (capital P, lowercase k, period). So the P must be polgári "civil", but still no clue what the k is.
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Thank you very much, Julia.
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