A brief explanation of the notaries’ function:

The notary is both a public official and a legal professional. As a civil servant, his task is to attest to the facts in the extrajudicial legal-private sphere; and as a legal professional, he advises his clients on the most suitable legal figures for achieving the aims they are seeking. (Article 1 of the Notarial Regulations). The notary provides citizens with legal security in accordance with Article 9 of the Spanish Constitution. His activity consists of attesting to the facts in the extrajudicial legal-private sphere and advising clients; the notary’s actions are materialised in PUBLIC DEEDS, ACTS, WITNESSES, AND INTERVENED POLICIES.

PUBLIC DEEDS

These serve to document a contract or legal business by creating an unquestionable document, the deed, with the greatest probative value in our legal system. Sales and purchases, companies, inheritances, donations, powers of attorney or wills are documented in deeds.

ACT

This is the notarial document in which the Notary Public attests to and records certain facts that he or she witnesses so that the client can accredit them where appropriate.

WITNESSES

By means of notarial testimony, the notary leaves a mark on a document to accredit certain circumstances such as the legitimacy of the signature or the identity of the copy.

INTERVENED POLICY

In this, the Notary Public attests to the identity, capacity and legitimacy of the signatories of a bank policy that includes a credit operation, verifying its legality and explaining its content to the client, giving it an unquestionable character.

Notaries provide the citizen with identical services in any part of Spain. They can and must prepare the document, deed, minutes, testimony or intervention of the bank policy that you need at a homogeneous price, since notarial prices are regulated.