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Key Facts: Paraguay Notary Competition Exam

50 items

Official 17th competition written paper

CSJ — published 2026 examination

120 minutes

2026 examination duration

Resolución 12898

1.5 jornales

2026 registration fee basis

Resolución 12898 and CSJ payment page

Spanish

Language of the published official examination

CSJ — 2026 examination paper

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Sample Paraguay Notary Competition Practice Questions

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1Under Ley 7424/2025, which institution supervises the Registro Unificado Nacional (RUN)?

A.Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas

B.Corte Suprema de Justicia

C.Consejo de la Magistratura

D.Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Comunicaciones

Explanation: Article 1 creates RUN as a technical and administrative organ of the Judicial Branch dependent on the Corte Suprema de Justicia. The integration of former executive agencies does not place RUN under those ministries.

2Which list contains all three bodies whose functions RUN absorbs, combines, modifies, and expands under Article 1 of Ley 7424/2025?

A.Registros Públicos, Registro Civil, and municipal tax offices

B.Servicio Nacional de Catastro, INDERT, and Registro Civil

C.Registros Públicos, Servicio Nacional de Catastro, and Agrimensura y Geodesia

D.Registros Públicos, Aduanas, and Agrimensura y Geodesia

Explanation: Article 1 identifies Registros Públicos, Servicio Nacional de Catastro, and the Departamento de Agrimensura y Geodesia. This integration brings together legal registration and physical identification functions without absorbing every public register.

3What does the Código Único de Identificación Catastral Registral identify under Article 40 of Ley 7424/2025?

A.Each immovable property through a unique physical and legal identifier

B.Each notary through a professional licence number

C.Each conveyance through the buyer's tax number

D.Each mortgage through its outstanding balance

Explanation: Article 40 provides for a unique, invariable, alphanumeric identifier for each immovable property. It connects physical and legal identification rather than identifying the professional or transaction alone.

4A client confuses cadastral entry with acquisition of ownership. Which statement follows Article 44 of Ley 7424/2025?

A.Cadastral entry constitutes ownership independently of title

B.Cadastral entry cancels competing real rights

C.Cadastral entry replaces the conveyance instrument

D.Cadastral entry publicizes physical, locational, and economic information with declarative effect

Explanation: Article 44 expressly characterizes cadastral registration as declarative. Its publicity concerns the parcel's physical, locational, and economic state and should not be treated as an independent conveyance of ownership.

5In the folio real technique described by Article 60 of Ley 7424/2025, what organizes the register?

A.One folio for each notary's annual business

B.One folio for each immovable property, gathering its relevant entries

C.One folio for every buyer's family

D.One folio for every type of tax

Explanation: The folio real is organized around the immovable property and contains its relevant antecedents and entries. It differs from organizing records solely around people or professional offices.

6For the registration procedure, Article 57 of Ley 7424/2025 defines título principally as what?

A.The document or documents directly containing the registrable act or right

B.Only the physical possession of the property

C.Only the applicant's academic qualification

D.Only a cadastral valuation

Explanation: Article 57 defines título by the document's direct connection to the registrable act or right. Such documents may have notarial, judicial, or administrative origins.

7A French-language instrument executed abroad contains a right registrable in Paraguay. Under Article 55 of Ley 7424/2025, which preparation addresses its language and authentication requirements?

A.Submit it untranslated if the applicant understands French

B.Replace it with an informal Spanish summary

C.Present it in Spanish or translated into Spanish, duly legalized or apostilled as applicable

D.Obtain a new Paraguayan academic certificate for its author

Explanation: Article 55 requires foreign documents to be presented in Spanish or translated into Spanish and duly legalized or apostilled according to their origin and applicable rules. These steps do not dispense with the separate requirement that the act or right be registrable under Paraguayan law.

8A party offers a private instrument with notarized signatures for registration. Which additional condition is essential under Article 55 of Ley 7424/2025?

A.The parties must waive all future objections

B.Express law must permit that form for the act or right and admit its registration or annotation

C.The instrument must be older than the public deed it replaces

D.The applicant must be the notary who certified the signatures

Explanation: Signature certification does not make every private instrument registrable. Article 55 requires express legal permission for that documentary form and admission of the resulting registration or annotation.

9Two adjoining immovable properties are legally unified. What cadastral consequence does Article 45 of Ley 7424/2025 require?

A.Keep separate parcels permanently despite the unification

B.Delete both properties without creating a resulting unit

C.Transfer both cadastral records to the notary personally

D.Unify the cadastral parcels as well

Explanation: Article 45 links unification of immovable properties to necessary unification of cadastral parcels. The physical and legal units must be coordinated through the applicable procedure.

10A property folio has not yet received the new Código Único. Under Article 60 of Ley 7424/2025, which approach is correct?

A.Retain the finca or matrícula designation while continuing to use folio real

B.Close the folio and suspend every entry automatically

C.Replace its designation with the owner's identity number

D.Treat the absence of the code as automatic extinction of ownership

Explanation: Article 60 preserves the finca or matrícula designation until the new code is incorporated. It also requires the corresponding entries to continue under the folio real technique.

About the Paraguay Notary Competition Exam

The Concurso de Méritos y Oposición para Notarios y Escribanos Públicos is Paraguay's CSJ competition for the usufruct of vacant notarial registries. Its 17th written examination took place on 1 September 2026. OpenExamPrep provides independent practice for selected notarial-law topics through 50 English-language MCQs with four options, retaining relevant Spanish legal terms. This adapts the official Spanish five-option assessment for study; it is not an official translation, format simulation, or substitute for Spanish legal reading, drafting, or professional practice. The bank samples RUN, civil contracts, compliance, and notarial duties; it does not cover the entire broad official outline.

Exam sponsor: Corte Suprema de Justicia — Tribunal Examinador. The requirements and fees below concern the certification or admission exam, separate from our free practice resources.

Assessment

Spanish-language written multiple-choice examination with five options per item, held on 1 September 2026, with 120 minutes under Resolución 12898. Allocation of vacant notarial registries follows the competition ranking and eligibility process. Academic and professional merits break ties in written scores. The reviewed rules list no separate oral, practical, assignment, or case-study assessment.

Time Limit

120 minutes (2026 regulation)

Passing Score

Acordada 1456/2020: first ranking at 70%; second ranking down to 60% only if vacancies remain; allocation is competitive

Exam / Certification Fees

2026: 1.5 minimum daily wages for actividades diversas no especificadas, via SIJ; confirm the current guaraní amount

Exam sponsor website

Fees, eligibility, and exam policies can change. Confirm them with the exam sponsor before applying or paying.

Official sources

CSJ — 17th competition, 2026 call and status · Source checked 2026-10-09
2026 examination regulation — Resolución 12898 · Source checked 2026-10-09
2026 official subject outline · Source checked 2026-10-09
Acordada 1456/2020 — eligibility and evaluation · Source checked 2026-10-09
2026 paper, answers, annulment act, and results · Source checked 2026-10-09
Ley 7424/2025 — RUN · Source checked 2026-10-09
Civil Code — official municipal library copy · Source checked 2026-10-09
CSJ — Código de Organización Judicial, updated and concorded edition · Source checked 2026-10-09
SEPRELAD — compliance and beneficial-owner guidance · Source checked 2026-10-09

Our practice resources: topics covered

We aim to reflect publicly available exam outlines and topic information in our study resources. Coverage, format, and difficulty may differ from the actual exam, and we cannot guarantee that every detail is accurate or current. Confirm exam requirements, fees, and policies with the official exam sponsor.

20 of 50 study questions (40%); editorial allocation

RUN and registry law

Institutional integration, property identification, cadastral effects, instruments, folio real, tracto abreviado, annotations, and cancellations under Ley 7424/2025.

10 of 50 study questions (20%); editorial allocation

Civil contracts

Public-deed form and its qualifications, future inheritance, interpretation, good faith, rescission, and subsequent impossibility.

10 of 50 study questions (20%); editorial allocation

Compliance and beneficial ownership

Beneficial-owner conditions, voting and capital thresholds, indirect control, suspicious operations, confidentiality, and terrorist-financing concepts.

10 of 50 study questions (20%); editorial allocation

Notarial duties

Professional intervention, secrecy, protocols, representation, personal receipt of declarations, attestation, testimonies, and service obligations.

Preparing for the Paraguay Notary Competition Exam

What You Need to Know

Passing score: Acordada 1456/2020: first ranking at 70%; second ranking down to 60% only if vacancies remain; allocation is competitive
Assessment: Spanish-language written multiple-choice examination with five options per item, held on 1 September 2026, with 120 minutes under Resolución 12898. Allocation of vacant notarial registries follows the competition ranking and eligibility process. Academic and professional merits break ties in written scores. The reviewed rules list no separate oral, practical, assignment, or case-study assessment.
Time limit: 120 minutes (2026 regulation)
Exam / certification fees: 2026: 1.5 minimum daily wages for actividades diversas no especificadas, via SIJ; confirm the current guaraní amount Official sources

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Paraguay Notary Competition: Suggested Study Strategy

1Read the complete 2026 outline and current amendments rather than relying on this selected-topic bank alone.

2Distinguish cadastral publicity, registry publicity, and substantive rights; an annotation's expiry does not necessarily extinguish the underlying right.

3Study the qualifications and exceptions to Civil Code public-deed rules, rather than memorizing blanket nullity claims.

4Review notarial duties in the Código de Organización Judicial and current SEPRELAD materials in Spanish.

5Use the latest CSJ documents for dates, fees, title-registration requirements, scoring decisions, and allocation procedures.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the competition a current, identifiable exam?

Yes. The CSJ called the 17th competition in 2026 and held its written examination on 1 September 2026. Its official page publishes the outline, rules, examination, answers, and results.

Does a law degree alone meet the notarial qualification?

The cited statutory requirement is the recognized Notario y Escribano Público qualification, together with the other eligibility conditions. A general law degree alone should not be presented as the specified notarial qualification.

Are the study topic percentages official weights?

No. The 40/20/20/20 allocation describes this bank only. No numerical topic weights were confirmed in the official 2026 subject outline, which is substantially broader than these selected topics.

Is this an official translation or exam simulation?

No. This is independent English-language MCQ practice for selected topics. The official assessment is in Spanish, and this bank does not substitute for Spanish legal reading, drafting, or professional practice.