HUNGARY. 



MORTGAGE STATISTICS IN HUNGARY. 



OFFICIAI. SOURCES : 



Rerort of the Royal Huxoarl^x Central Statistic^i^Office, forwarded to the Inter- 

 national Institute of Agriculture. 



Annuaire Statistique Hoxgrois [Hun'^arian Statistical Yearbook). New Series. Vol. XIX. 

 1911. Budapest, 1913, 



§ I. Attempts to discover the amount 



OF THE mortgage INDEBTEDNESS OF HUNGARY. 



The first attempts made in Hungary to estimate the mortgage debt 

 on urban and rural land date from 1858, when the land registers were 

 examined in order to obtain the statistics. But since these registers had 

 only been instituted shortly before, they were found quite insufficient for the 

 purpose. 



Nor was a second attempt carried out by the National Statistical 

 Office in the same way in 1867 any more successful. However, this time 

 it was possible to make an official return of the mortgage loans granted 

 by the Hitngarian credit institutes. 



From this return, however, there were excluded not only the amotmts 

 of the mortgage loans granted by private individuals and incorporated 

 bodies, but also those of the loans made by foreign land credit institutes. 



In 1883 the original attempt of discovering the mortgage debt on land 

 from the land registers was resumed, but at the same time it was decided 

 to carry out a partial inquiry into the land debt in certain parts of the 

 kingdom. 



The results were published in 1895, but, as we read in the official 

 report forwarded to the International Institute of Agriculture, this attempt 

 also failed to gi\'e full}^ satisfactory results. 



In 1892 the Agricultural Department, when it was organising the gen- 

 eral agricultural census, decided also to ask for the return of the burdens 

 on the land and a new trial census was taken in 1898, to a large extent on 

 the same lines as those followed in the enquiry' of 1883. 



