Notarial Deeds
Translation services for notarial deeds
SMG Languages provides translation services and the assistance of sworn interpreters for official legal acts and private acts drawn up as public deeds by a notary.
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Some of our key clients
The main types of official deeds that we can translate for you include:
- Marriage certificates
- Deeds of gift
- Wills
- Notarial deeds (under civil law) and affidavits (under common law)
- Deeds of incorporation
What is a notarial deed? An important aspect of legal translation
In civil-law jurisdictions (excluding some northern European countries such as Sweden, Finland, Denmark, etc.), a notarial act is a private legal act that takes the form of a public act through the participation of a civil-law notary. In this case, the notarial act is referred to as a deed, as it is formally drawn up in accordance with the law by a notary who attests to the facts contained in the act.
However, under common law and in some northern European countries (Sweden, Finland, Denmark, etc.), it is not possible to draw up a private act in the form of a public act because the role of the notary public in these countries does not correspond to that of the civil-law notary, and the notary public only legalizes signatures.
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