Translation Author:Philippines Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TITLE III. PUBLIC INSTRUMENTS, THEIR COPIES, PROTOCOLS, AND BOOKS TO BE KEPT BY NOTARIES. Art. 17. It is the duty of notaries to draft and authenticate ... more »original and other instruments, issue copies of either, and to take depositions and make protocols and keep books. An original instrument is the one which a notary must execute on the contract or instrument submitted for his authentication, signed by the parties interested, by the attesting -witnesses, or, if proper, by the witnesses of identification, signed and marked by the notary himself, and with the other requisites and formalities required by the laws. A notarial instrument is the one in which a notary certifies to having issued any certified copy which is not taken from the protocols or from the books of the notarial office, making a brief extract thereof. A first copy is the transcript of the whole or part of the original instrument which each of the executors or parties interested has a right to receive for the first time. By second copy is understood any copy which does not fill the requisites established above. A certified copy or deposition (testimonio) is the instrument in which a notary certifies to any act, or in which he inserts or relates in part or in whole an instrument, stating its conformity with the other document, or the instrument in which he does both things. By protocol is understood the collection in proper order of the original instruments authenticated during one year, which shall be included in one or more bound volumes, folioed by the number written out, and with the other requisites prescribed by the regulations. A notarial book is the one in which a notary copies the wrapper of sealed wills and codicils, and in which he places the original of other testamentary provisi...« less