Civil law notaries provide citizens and companies with legal and material safety:
- Civil law notaries inform and advise whoever consults them. By authenticating acts, they give them a special probative value and ensure their direct enforceability.
- Civil law notaries ensure that acts are drawn up in accordance with the law.
- Civil law notaries keep acts in their archive and see to it that they are protected from damage and loss.
- Civil law notaries collect taxes due to the State when acts are drawn up, which enables them to check the claimed amount.
- Civil law notaries provide guarantees of solvency.
- Civil law notaries are entirely responsible for the acts that they draw up and the information that they provide.
