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Public Notary
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Malta Homes Estate Agents, can arrange upon request a meeting with a Notary Public as a free consultation, prior to any signing whereupon you can put forward any questions or queries you may have in connection to property related matters on the islands of Malta and Gozo.
A Notary Public in Maltese is known as a "Nutar Publiku" also known as "notaries," "notary" "notarial officers," or "public notaries" which can trace its origins back to ancient Rome, when they were called scribae, tabellius or notarius, they are easily the oldest continuing branch of the legal profession worldwide.
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Generally speaking, a notary public may be described as an officer of the law, whose public office and duty it is to draw, attest or certify under his official seal deeds and other documents, including wills or other testamentary documents, conveyances of real and personal property and powers of attorney; to authenticate such documents under his signature and official seal in such a manner as to render them acceptable, as proof of the matters attested by him, to the judicial or other public authorities whether by means of issuing a notarial certificate as to the due execution of such documents or by drawing them in the form of public instruments; to keep a protocol containing originals of all instruments which he/she makes in the public form and to issue authentic copies of such instruments; to administer oaths and declarations for use in proceedings to note or certify transactions relating to negotiable instruments, and to draw up protests or other formal papers relating to a multitude of occurrences.
Some History
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In the last century of the Republic, probably in the time of Cicero, a new form of shorthand was invented and certain arbitrary marks and signs, called notae, were substituted for words in common use. A writer who adopted the new method was called a notarius. Originally, a notary was one who took down statements in shorthand and wrote them out in the form of memoranda or minutes.
Later, the title notarius was applied almost exclusively to registrars attached to high government officials, including provincial governors and secretaries to their leaders. |
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Notwithstanding the collapse of the Western Empire in the 5th century AD, the notary remained a figure of some importance in many parts of continental Europe throughout the Dark Ages. When the civil law experienced its renaissance in medieval Italy from the 12th century onwards, the notary was established as a central institution of that law, a position which still obtains in countries whose legal systems are derived from the civil law.
Traditionally, notaries recorded matters of judicial importance as well as private transactions or events where an officially authenticated record or a document drawn up with professional skill or knowledge was required.
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