The notarial act has the character of a public document in accordance with the Article 438 of the Civil Procedure Code, which considers as public documents the ones that have been "drafted by a civil servant or an officer or a person performing a public service or function’'. As a public document the notarial act bears a specific date and provides full evidentiary force against all; for everything that falls under the direct perception of the Notary, as it is mentioned in the relevant act.
Finally, according to the Article 904 of the Civil Procedure Code the notarial deed is enforceable and simulated at this point by the final court judgments. The term of enforceability is used in order to describe a situation in which no court order is required to counterbalance the implementation of the provisions in the deed, if one of the parties does not comply with its obligations.
Thus the citizen and the State itself, save time and cut down on the costs just by the mere decision of the citizen to not apply directly to the Court for the arrangement of his/her personal case.
The mere fact that a certain notarial act has been drafted by an authorized Notary Public is enough to justify the validity of the aforementioned features (specific date, probative value and enforceability), regardless of whether or not the law provides for its drafting as a component of the force of a legal document, or the desire of the contracting parties to surround the declaration of their intent in the form of a notarial deed.
With these three benefits, the application of a citizen to a Notary Public adds to a certain contract a significant amount of value, and results in the predominance of the notarial deed in comparison with the drafting of a private document.
