Notarial Instructions

Abstract

This paper addresses the important topic of notarial instructions. Due to the complexity of modern contracts, the larger number of parties involved on them and the increasing amounts of the businesses, it has become that along with the subscription of the main contract the parties grant instructions to the notary for the most diverse purposes, without being such instructions circumscribed —as it was the case— only to the payment of the price to the seller upon fulfillment of certain requirements (e.g., inscription on the Real Estate Registry). Hence the need for clarifying, among other issues, its legal nature, evidentiary weight, binding force and limits.