kaznac

Kaznac ({{lang-sr-cyr|казнац}}) was a court title of the state employee in medieval Bosnia and Serbia who was in charge for the treasury in the territory under his jurisdiction — kaznačina (казначина).{{cite book|title=The Florida State University slavic papers, Volumes 4-5|year=1970|publisher=Center for Slavic and East European Studies, Florida State University|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4dAKAQAAMAAJ&q=kaznac+title|author=Florida State University. Center for Slavic and East European Studies|access-date=26 March 2012|page=112|quote=A kaznacina is headed by a Kaznac who is a state employee, representative of the state authority in the kaznacina}}{{cite book|title=Dragoljub: zabavan i poucan tjednik, Volume 2|year=1868|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B_hIAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA715|access-date=26 March 2012|page=715|quote=kaznac, koji se pominje u srbskih i bosanskih listinah sa značenjem praefectus}}{{better source|date=April 2016}} The name of the title is derived from Serbo-Croatian word kazna ({{langx|en|penalty}}).{{cite book|title=The Florida State University slavic papers, Volumes 4-5|year=1970|publisher=Center for Slavic and East European Studies, Florida State University|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4dAKAQAAMAAJ&q=kaznac+title|author=Florida State University. Center for Slavic and East European Studies|access-date=26 March 2012|page=112|quote=He also inflicts penalties, hence his title kazna-penalty in Serbo-Croat language)}} The kaznac was a financial-taxation service, translated into Latin camerarius (itself rendered "chamberlain").{{sfn|Purković|1985|p=27}}

In the Dečani chrysobulls, King Stefan Dečanski (r. 1321–1331) mentioned that the court dignitaries present at the Dečani assembly were the kaznac, tepčija, vojvoda, sluga and stavilac.{{cite book|author=Srđan Šarkić|title=Srednjovekovno srpsko pravo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BxQlAQAAIAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Matica srpska|page=66|isbn=9788636303696}}

The title of veliki kaznac (велики казнац, "grand kaznac") was later transformed into protovestijar.