Jitsu-In is a registered Hanko. If you register a Hanko on an individual basis, a Hanko needs to be registered at municipality. If you register a Hanko on an corporate basis, a Hanko needs to be registered at regional legal Affairs bureau. The point of whether or not a Hanko is registered officially is the clear difference between Mitome-In and Jitsu-In. No matter how impressive the look of Hanko is, but for no registration to a government office, the Hanko is treated as Mitome-In. On the contrary, even if your Hanko look very cheap, a registered seal is treated as Jitsu-In.
legal effect of Jitsu-In
Just because you stamp Jitsu-In on a document, it is not that a special legal effect is produced. The benefit that you are granted by having a Jitsu-In is that the credibility of a document that Jitsu’in is stamped enhances at the Court.
For example, imagine the case that you have a private bond that has a name of the person you lent but the borrower insists “I didn’t write that private bond”.
In this case, even if there is not your autograph on it and your name is filled with typeface in the signature column, if your Jitsu-In is stamped and seal registration certificate is attached on it, a document is as credible as the one you sign on it.
Therefore, even though the borrower excuses like “I have nothing to do with that private bond”, the bond is judged to be written by him at the Court.
/****When you should stamp Jitsu-In****/
In case of individuals, You need it in a certain case that you are required to stamp a Hanko which has been registered and notified a city, town, or village mayor by legal imperatives. In case of a company, you need it when you make a contract that needs impression of a Hanko registered at Regional Legal Affairs Bureau, In this case, you may also be requested to submit attached document, “Inkan registration certificate” which a certain period of time needs to be elapsed after issurance. There is a case that both contracter and contractee may be required to stamp “Jitsu-In” on a contract by legal imperatives.
- under procedure of succession to property
- when making a notarial document (testament, financing contract with the royalty payment condition)
- when establishing a company
- when buying a new car or dealing a used car between individuals.
- when making a loan contract
- when dealing a telephone subscription right contract
- when dealing real estate property
- when making a insurance contract.
However, from the viewpoint of probative value, its effectiveness is the same as you stamp another Hanko without registration.