1. Private seal has certain legal effect, but it cannot be an element of legal effect alone. It must be used with other materials to have legal effect.
2. A private seal cannot represent a signature. In our daily social behavior, if a private seal is to have legal effect, it must be filed or notarized, otherwise it will have no legal effect.
3. Seals include official seals and private seals. The former includes units, organizations and individual industrial and commercial households, and the state implements record management; The latter is only for personal use, and the state has not implemented record management. If it is necessary to ensure the authenticity of the seal, you can notarize the backup or reserve the seal at the business bank.
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Personal seal of the legal representative and its behavioral responsibility
1. Private seal is the abbreviation of personal seal. The use of private seals has a long history in China. From ancient times to the present, from the emperor to the people, there are many private seals, and more importantly, private seals have the characteristics of personal identity. A person's personal seal can be used as a personal identification.
2. The personal seal of the legal representative has the same effect as the seal of an ordinary natural person. If a personal seal is used in a contract or other legal documents, the law presumes that the legal representative has made a positive expression of intention to the contract or other legal documents.
3. When the legal representative conducts legal acts as an ordinary citizen, it can take legal effect as long as he signs, while when he conducts legal acts as the legal representative of a legal person, he only needs to sign his own name, and the legal act will take effect for the legal person.
4. In order to avoid the risk of using the private seal, the best way is to properly protect your private seal and have enough anti-counterfeiting measures on your private seal.
The relative legal representative has the right to represent the company, and the signature of the legal representative of the unit is relative.
5. The legal significance of the legal representative of an enterprise or unit refers to the principal responsible person who exercises civil rights and performs civil obligations on behalf of a legal person according to law. The legal representative has the right to directly exercise his functions and powers on behalf of the legal person within the scope of functions and powers prescribed by law, and his behavior belongs to duty behavior and is regarded as legal person behavior, and the legal consequences shall be borne by the enterprise or unit.
References:
Party and government organs network-People's Republic of China (PRC) contract law
Baidu encyclopedia-private seal