Notarial services
A notary is a practising attorney who is admitted and enrolled by the High Court to practise as such and who is tasked with the drafting of certain documents required by law to be drafted by a notary, for instance ante-nuptial contracts, long term lease agreements of immovable property and servitudes.
There are numerous court cases in which the importance of a notary is stressed. As long ago as 1909 it was stated that the presumption is that every statement contained in a notarial deed is true and that all proper solemnities have been observed by the notary.
In Incorporated Law Society of the Transvaal v Kuyper, 1925 TPD 760 Curlewis JP said: “The office of a Notary is not only one of very great antiquity, but one of the highest importance and responsibility, an office of such responsibility that in most countries in Europe and in this country, the greatest confidence and trust is reposed in any document executed by a Notary.”
Our notaries live up to the above.
Our notaries render the full spectrum of notarial services, including the following:
- authentication and attestation of documents and Apostille certificates
- antenuptial and postnuptial contracts
- prospecting and mining rights and cessions thereof
- praedial servitudes e.g., servitudes of right of way
- personal servitudes e.g., usufructs
- waivers of preference
- notarial bonds
- long-term lease agreements
- notarial tie agreements