{"id":11610,"date":"2025-07-30T13:24:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alessandropasqual.it\/what-a-notary-do-in-italy\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T14:52:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:52:01","slug":"what-a-notary-do-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alessandropasqual.it\/en\/what-a-notary-do-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Notary do in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After you find the perfect property in Italy, you need a Notary to write the final deed and become the new proud owner of your Italian dream house. But what actually a Notary do in Italy?   <\/p>\n\n<p>Let me tell you:<\/p>\n\n<p>The notary is a public officer to whom the ltalian State has entrusted the task of producing all deeds between living persons as well as last wills and testaments and endowing such documents with public trust In addition to family relationships, on which he or she is among the leading experts, and questions of succession, the notary is involved in many areas, including: real estate transaction; important changes in company structure, whether it is a one-person firm or a corporate entity, mortgages contracts and loans.<\/p>\n\n<p>The Italian notary is subject to stringent checks by the State that help further in crease the safety of the client for whom he performs work. AII notarial deeds, in fact, are subject to periodic inspection by the Department of Taxation (every four months) and the Ministry of Justice (every two years), to verify that the correct amount of tax has been paid and that the deeds comply with the law. <\/p>\n\n<p>On behalf of the State, the ltalian notary collects the taxes linked to all deeds (registration tax, mortgage and cadastral taxes, etc.).<\/p>\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.alessandropasqual.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-30-at-15.18.49-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11371 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alessandropasqual.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-30-at-15.18.49-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11371 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alessandropasqual.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-30-at-15.18.49-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.alessandropasqual.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-30-at-15.18.49-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.alessandropasqual.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-30-at-15.18.49-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.alessandropasqual.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-30-at-15.18.49.jpeg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Italian Notary duties:<\/h2>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Notarised Public Deed<\/h3>\n\n<p>The notary confers public trust, i.e. the status of legaI proof, to the deeds he draws up. So everyone - including the courts - must accept as true what he has attested, unless the crime of forgery is established. <\/p>\n\n<p>For this reason, the notary must personally determine what the intentions are of those persons who engage him and the goal to be achieved, in order to prepare the deed, in accordance with the law, in the most suitable and economical manner To this end provision of the notary's advice prior to the signing of the deed is essential.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Guarantees Regarding Deeds<\/h3>\n\n<p>In performing his function the notary must, by law, be independent and impartial: he must protect the interests of all parties equally, regardless of who has appointed ed him. He must, therefore, decline to act whenever there is a conflict of interest (for example, when his own relatives are parties to a transaction). <\/p>\n\n<p>The notary performs a prior check on legality: he has a duty to ensure the laws are respected and cannot and must not produce deeds in contravention of the law. Before drawing up a deed, the notary must identify the parties, and their will and the legal power to act and sign the contract. <\/p>\n\n<p>The notary is required to verify the conformity of the intent declared to him with the rules of the legal system, and not only of the ltalian legal system. In the event that a case has foreign implications, the notary must identify the law applicable <\/p>\n\n<p>to the case according to the rules of private international law and must evaluate whether the intention of the parties is in accordance with the applicable rules.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">  Anti-money-laundering controls<\/h3>\n\n<p>Under the law on money laundering, the notary must ensure the identification of clients and the beneficial owner of the operation and report any suspicious trans actions to the FIU (Financial intelligence Unit) at the Bank of ltaly.<\/p>\n\n<p>This helps demonstrate how the notary is not only at the service of the public but also assists the authorities in checks on legality<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Language of Legal Documents<\/h3>\n\n<p>The law requires that deeds be written in ltalian. But when the parties declare that they do not know the ltalian language, the deed may be written in a foreign language, so long as that language is known by the notary. <\/p>\n\n<p>The text in a foreign language will be accompanied by an ltalian translation. lf the no <\/p>\n\n<p>tary does not understand the foreign language used by the parties, it will styles be pos sible to draw up the deed in the presence of an interpreter chosen by the parties. In this last case, the deed will be written in ltalian, but will be accompanied by the translation prepared by the interpreter m the foreign language. In this way, foreigners too may enjoy the benefits of transactions sealed by a notarial deed. The deed and any translation into a foreign language, must then be read out to the parties by the notary, if necessary with the help of the interpreter. Thus the parties will be able to check that the notary has correctly represented their intentions in the public document before signing it.    <\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Registration and Storage of Notarial Deeds<\/h3>\n\n<p>Following the signing of a deed, the notary will lodge it with the appropriate ate public registries: land, companies, civil status, etc. Registration of notari al documents is therefore not a burden on the parties but is a clear obligation of the notary. Thanks to this task entrusted by law to the notary, the public registers of the ltalian State are complete, reliable and up to date in near real time. The notary is responsible for the filing and preservation of the deeds he has drawn up so they do not run the risk of being lost.   <\/p>\n\n<p>The preservation of notarial deeds is assured even after the notary who created them ceases his professional activity. The deeds are then delivered to the Notarial Archive, a facility of the Ministry of Justice of the ltalian State, which will ensure their preservation and issue certified copies. <\/p>\n\n<p>Are you looking to buy a property in Italy? you may need <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alessandropasqual.it\/en\/how-to-buy-a-home-in-italy-the-final-guide\/\">this guide <\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After you find the perfect property in Italy, you need a Notary to write the final deed and become the new proud owner of your Italian dream house. But what actually a Notary do in Italy? 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