{"id":3018,"date":"2017-09-07T08:47:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T12:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zolo.ca\/news\/?post_type=encyclopedia&p=3018"},"modified":"2021-08-03T14:12:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T18:12:04","slug":"witness","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/www.zolo.ca\/blog\/glossary\/witness","title":{"rendered":"Witness"},"content":{"rendered":"

A witness is a person or legal entity that can confirm the authenticity of a document. A witness is often called upon to sign a statement or document but may also be asked to testify to the authenticity, if necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-3018","encyclopedia","type-encyclopedia","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"custom_title":"What is a witness?","why_important":"

Legal documents that need to be registered at a Titles office, such as documents related to the sale or lease of land, require a witness to sign as these documents have specific legal requirements.<\/p>\n

As such, land transfer and lease documents are unlike most legal documents, which do not require a witness in order to be valid.<\/p>\n","examples_of":"

When signing an agreement of purchase or sale<\/a>, your real estate agent may ask to be present in order to witness your signature. That’s because your agent is now taking on the legal role of witness, a role that may be required in order to validate the document.<\/p>\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zolo.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/3018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zolo.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zolo.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/encyclopedia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zolo.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zolo.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}