The development of law in Croatia can be traced back to ancient times and mostly from documents dating from the 13th century („Vinodolski zakon“). At that time, names like „prokurator“ or „advokat“ were used for a lawyer. Procurators were people who took the procurator's oath. They had the right to represent in front of the court where they took the oath and within the registry of which they were listed as procurators. It is important to note that the development of attorney has not been the same in all areas of Croatia. The attorney in Croatia took its modern form in the 19th century. Until 1852., the Croatian-Hungarian Bar Association was active. In 1851, the areas of today's Croatia came under Austrian rule, and with the enactment of the Lawyer's Order („Odvjetnički red“) in 1852, all previous regulations were abolished and the legal profession was modernized. According to Lawyer's Order, the lawyers were appointed by the Minister of Justice, and later by the „Ban“ himself. It was valid for the territory of Croatia, Slavonia, Hungary, Tamis Banat and Vojvodina, and it could only be entered by legally educated lawyers with completed professional practice by a lawyer or in court for two and later three years and passed the procurator's exam laid in front of the Ban's table. The Lawyer's Order also provided for the establishment of lawyer committees, but they were first established in 1872., when the Order of the Provincial Government established the Lawyer Committees in Zagreb and Osijek. Their task was to adopt rules of procedure, budget plan, determine the stallum agenda in certain places, submit proposals for the improvement of the judiciary, and preserve the dignity of the class, supervising the rights and duties of lawyers. The final arrangement of the attorney in Dalmatia came with the adoption of the Lawyer Order („Advokatski red“) on July 6, 1868. in which at the very beginning the text that a candidate for the practice of law does not need to be appointed by the authorities, but to meet the legal requirements and be entered in the register of lawyers. This means that this Lawyer Order introduced "free advocacy" in the sense that every candidate who met certain legal requirements had the right to be registered as a lawyer and became a lawyer, without permission from the state.