What is the Meaning & Definition of notary

A notary is a public official who is authorized to give faith to instances of contracts, wills, among other documents, and extrajudicial acts. I.e. the notary has the power to control them and is the witness of the holding of the above-mentioned contracts or signatures on documents.
It is also his signature which granted a public character to the above writings. The signature of the notary acts as a guarantee and gives legality to the document in question, because it is precisely empowered by law to give warranties mentioned in acts which correspond to private law.
On the other hand, the notary, can carry out tasks of advising in matters of public record.
Note that the notary is a custodian of documents supporting his signature and that are set out in the protocols of the notary. Another distinguishing feature of this official is its neutrality, i.e. it is obliged to show neutral acts involved.
Among documents that usually involved a notary are: ratification (in this notary attests to the existence of a writing, an Act, or a demonstration and gives them by certain), testimony (consists of the total transcript of an act or deed) notarization (through this indicates that this or that document coincides with its original) certified copy (consists of the partial or total copy of an act or a script).
Any notarial document is proof enough that the adjudicators gave their consent to hold the event in question, of the truth of the facts that the document claims and that they have fulfilled in a way according to the formalities.
Training and the requirements to be met by a notary are dependent on the place in the world which is, for example, in Nations like Argentina and Uruguay, have notaries public notary activity, meanwhile, in Spain, it will require you have graduated in law career, possess Spanish citizenship, or being born within the European Union.