otorgantes

Otorgante is a term used in Spanish-speaking legal systems to designate the person who grants, signs, or executes a formal legal instrument that creates, transfers, or acknowledges rights and obligations. The concept is broad and applies to deeds, contracts, powers of attorney, wills, and other notarial documents. The otorogante is the party who declares the terms and consents to their legal effects in the presence of a notary or competent authority.

In practice, the otorogante is the party originating the instrument, while the recipient of the granted rights or powers is the otorgatario (grantee or beneficiary). The plural form, otorgantes, refers to multiple grantors who jointly execute the instrument. For example, in a real estate transaction the seller may be described as the otorgante of the escritura de compraventa, whereas the buyer would be the otorgatario.

Notable considerations include capacity, voluntariness, and legality of the act. In most civil-law systems, the act is authenticated by a notary or public official who verifies identities and the free will of the grantors. The term is common across civil-law jurisdictions and may be supplemented or replaced by context-specific terms such as grantor or party in certain legal documents.

Etymology traces to the Spanish verb otorgar, meaning to grant or confer.