Molnár Csaba, The Hungarian road to codification of administrative procedures

At the end of the 19^th century and at the beginning of the 20^th century the Public Administrative Law was the youngest law field in Hungary and there was no general administrative procedure regulation. Each sectoral act had its own procedure including legal remedies against decisions of public administrative bodies. As the tasks of the state grew, the number of the sectoral regulation acts expanded sharply and it led to a complicated, barely transparent system which was not in accordance with the principle of legal certainty. The time limit during the legal remedy proceedings varied between 24 hours, 48 hours, 3 days, 5 days, 8 days, 10 days, 14 days, 15 days and 28 days which needed a simplification and generalization in the administrative procedure law. By the end of the 19^thcentury the numerous decrees, the importance of literacy, prescribed forms and the bigger and bigger bureaucracy made it necessary...