The Role of the Notary Public in Detecting Forged Documents and Referring Them to the Criminal Courts in Iraqi and Lebanese Law A Comparative Study

The profession of the notary public is one of the professions that plays a major role in managing the frameworks of the system in societies, ancient and modern. And it contributes, through legal bases, to the maintenance of these relations, and to determining the aspects of proper interaction between members of society, as the profession of the notary public is to control the transactions that give them an official and legal status for members of society, since the one who works on editing and documenting these transactions is a person who works in an official capacity is The notary public assigned by the state legally with this task, and since the relationship of the notary public with documents, whether official or customary, is a steady relationship, the presence of distortion, manipulation, change, omission, addition, or change of content, or informal or legal manufacture of an editor is in itself It has a criminal responsibility as it is a legally criminal forgery. The notary public must have a role in detecting it, standing up to it and taking the necessary measures against it legally, as this study comes with the most important thing related to the responsibility of the notary in disclosing Because the forged documents, and taking what is legally necessary to refer the perpetrator of forgery and the editor as evidence to prove the fact of forgery to the criminal courts, and due to the severe shortcomings in the studies that deal with this issue, this study is of importance in its academic and scientific right as it highlights the role of the notary in this field, For the purpose of giving the study an applied and practical dimension in addition to the theoretical dimension, a comparison is made between the role of the Iraqi notary and the Lebanese notary in the issue of detecting forgery in documents and referral to the criminal courts. And Lebanon in detecting forged documents with a comparison between the two roles, and the third chapter on the role of the notary public in Iraq and Lebanon in referring to the criminal courts and comparing the two roles. Referring it to the criminal courts, where the study suggests activating the issue legally.