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- Civil law notaries are trained jurists who often receive the same training as advocating jurists
- Civil law notaries are usually limited to areas of private law — that law which resolves controversies between private individuals and involves minimal or no state intervention.
- The most common areas of practice for civil law notaries are in property conveyancing and registration, contract drafting, commercial transactions, successions and other estate related matters.
- They usually have no authority to appear before tribunals or courts on behalf of their clients; their role is limited to drafting, authenticating, and archiving certain types of important transactional documents.
- When a civil law notary authenticates a document, the result (in nearly all jurisdictions that recognize their powers) is a conclusive presumption that the document is a true record of the facts asserted or recorded within.
