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 your signature that will grant a public character to the aforementioned writings. The notary's signature acts as a guarantee and gives the document in question legality, because it is precisely empowered by law to give the aforementioned guarantees in acts that correspond to private law.
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 supports 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 he participates.
Among the documents that a notary usually intervenes are: ratification (In this the notary attests to the existence of a document, an act, or a manifestation and assumes them as true), testimony (consists of the total transcription of a record or a deed), notarization (through this it indicates that this or that document coincides with its original), certified copy (It consists of a 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 they 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 a law degree, possess Spanish citizenship or have been born within the European Union.
