Legal Consequences of not Attaching Fingerprints to Minuta to Notary Deed

Abstract

An authentic deed drawn up by a Notary as a general or public official becomes very important and is needed by parties as appearers. One of the Notary's obligations regulated in Article 16 (1) c explains that the Notary is obliged to attach letters and documents as well as the fingerprints of the person appearing on the Minuta Deed. However, what becomes a legal issue in this scientific research article is what if the appearer does not want to affix or attach his fingerprints to the minutes of the deed because Article 16 (1) c still contains a vague norm. So that the purpose of this scientific research article is to analyze whether the Notary is personally responsible for not including fingerprints at the request of the appearer and whether not including the fingerprints of the appearer in the minutes results in the position of the notary deed as an authentic deed. The method in this scientific research article uses the method of normative legal scientific research articles. The results of the analysis of this scientific research article show that first, not attaching or affixing the appearers fingerprints to a minutes of notary deed based on the request of the appearer itself remains the responsibility of the notary. Second, not affixing the fingerprints of the appearer on the minutes of the Notary Deed theoretically does not have any effect on the validity, but based on the evidentiary side this can be a consideration for the judge to then abort the minutes of the Notary deed under the hand. So, it is necessary to revise the provisions related to fingerprints in the Notary Law with the aim of clarifying and it becomes necessary to explain in more detail and detail the mechanism of affixing or attaching fingerprints to the minutes of notary deed.