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It is certified what a person has said or stated and when they have done so.

The Notary is required to attend a location and certify the condition of a specific asset at a particular moment, being able to take photographs of it if necessary.

The Notary is requested to claim something from someone or to carry out a certain act, recording this and the response of the requested party.

It is intended to record the statements, claims, documents and agreements adopted at the meeting of a company.

The notary records in a deed those contractual conditions that a company includes in its contracts. In this way, they can prove to third parties which conditions were in force at a given time.

The notary, through the appropriate calculations, certifies the resulting balance of a specific account or debt.

Possibly the most well-known minutes by everyone. Through the presence of the Notary at a competition, it is certified that there has been no manipulation of the results and, where applicable, the randomness of the selection.

These are those in which the Notary introduces into his archive, whose content is secret and cannot be published, the documentation, always legal and legitimate, that the interested party wishes.

The website verification certificate is the notarial document in which the Notary records the state of a website at a given moment.

This notarial document grants full evidential effects, in court or outside it.

The Whatsapp verification report allows notarised proof of a Whatsapp conversation held between several people.

This report is a notarial document with full evidential, judicial and extrajudicial effects.

The notarial deposit record certifies that an object has been delivered to a Notary. The deposited object will be the one stated in the record and will be returned in the manner and within the time established.

The most common notarial deposit is the deposit of money, which may accompany a sale or have another purpose, such as resolving a dispute.

The notarial deposit deed of earnest money certifies that the person who is going to be the buyer of a property has handed over the earnest money for the future purchase to the Notary, so that the Notary will deliver the money to the seller when the purchase is signed.

It helps to avoid risks for the buyer since the earnest money is handed over to the Notary instead of the future seller.

The certificate of non-appearance certifies that a person has not attended the Notary's office when they were supposed to, either because they had an agreed signature or because they had received a summons.

Article 207 of the Notarial Regulations allows the authentication of the signature on a foreign document which, according to Spanish legislation, must circulate as a deed in Spain and according to foreign law must circulate as an authentication.

Thus, this document can be used in a country where its legislation requires the documentary form of a notarial authentication, thereby complying with the laws of both countries.

The notification record allows for a public document to certify that a notification has been made to a person in a notarial manner.

Sometimes the law requires a notarial record to achieve certain legal effects.

Depending on the case, the notification can be carried out by the Notary in person or by sending registered mail with acknowledgment of receipt.

The certificate of notoriety allows a notarial accreditation of a well-known fact to be accepted as true. The notoriety of a fact in a notarial document allows the effects established by law for that fact to take place.

A very common type in Inheritance Law is the certificate of notoriety of heirs abintestato, which accredits who the heirs of a deceased person without a will are.

This certificate allows the ownership of a vehicle by a person to be proven by notoriety, in order to ensure that the owner of a vehicle is recorded as such in the Traffic Authorities.

It is usually used to regularise the ownership of a vehicle when it was acquired some time ago and the acquisition was not properly registered.

For those foreigners with a valid residence permit who wish their family members to be able to travel to our country to work and reside, they can prove their family ties with a family reunification certificate before a Notary.

Through the letter of invitation (a notarial document especially necessary for non-EU foreigners) you can invite someone to legally visit the country, provided that you assume their expenses and obligations during their stay and guarantee their return. 

Maritime certificates allow a notary to officially record facts or incidents related to maritime transport, for example, accidents occurring on the high seas. This is one of the best-known certificates, but it is also possible to certify damage to the ship, its cargo, the loss or non-payment of goods, among other options.

Notarial conciliation allows civil or commercial disputes to be resolved quickly, economically and without going to court, being mandatory before filing a claim following Law 1/2025. The Notary acts as an impartial mediator to facilitate agreements and, if a consensus is reached, this can be elevated to a public deed with executive force.