The Legal Meaning of a Notarial Act

This article analyzes the legal nature and significance of a notarial act that has increased legal force, examines the importance of judicial awareness of the facts that are established by notaries, notes the importance of attributing notarial acts to types of evidentiary presumption. The article examines the issues of attribution of the notary to the institute of preventive justice, considers the special pre-judicial status of the notarial act. It is emphasized that the new electronic form of notarial acts retains its inherent legal properties even in the era of digitalization. The authors also provide statistics on the provision of evidence on the Internet made by notaries and an analysis of current judicial practice in the framework of the study of the above issues.