Atty. PM Dizon

Legal trivia: In a case decided in 2020, the Supreme Court declared that not signing (or stamping one's thumbprint) on the notarial book of a notary is considered a defect that prevents the transformation of a document to a public document.

If you have contracts that transfer real property (like land, condos, etc.) or you have a multi-million peso transaction with many moving parts and there is a chance that the signatories to the contract will no longer be found or be willing to testify in case of litigation, better be sure you go to a real lawyer and sign on his notarial book when you transact or it may be problematic later.

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