Concept in Definition ABC

A notary is a public official who is authorized to attest to instances of contracts, wills, among other documents, and in extrajudicial acts. That is, the notary has the power to control them and is the witness of the conclusion of the aforementioned contracts or signatures of documents.

In addition, it is his signature that will grant a public character to the aforementioned writings. The notary's signature acts as a guarantee and provides you with legality to the document in question, because he precisely he is empowered by law to give the aforementioned guarantees in acts that correspond to the private right.

On the other hand, the notary can carry out advisory tasks in matters of public acts.

It should be noted that the notary is a custodian of the documents that he endorses with his signature and that are consigned in the protocols of the Notary's Office. Another differential feature of this official is his neutrality, that is, he is obliged to be neutral in the acts in which he participates.

Among the documents that a notary usually intervenes are: ratification (In this the notary attests to the existence of a writing, an act, or a manifestation and takes them for certain), testimony (consists of the total transcription of a minutes or of a writing), certification notarial (through this it indicates that this or that document coincides with its original), certified copy (It consists of the partial or total copy of an act or a deed).

Any notarial document is reliable and sufficient proof that the grantors gave their consent to celebrate the act in question, of the truth of the facts that the document affirms and that have been fulfilled in accordance with the formalities.

The training and requirements that a notary must meet depend on where in the world he is located, for example, in nations such as Argentina and Uruguay, the notary activity is exercised by public notaries, meanwhile, in Spain, you will be required to have graduated from the race of Laws, possess the citizenship Spanish or having been born within the European Union.