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	GR No. 128703 2000-12-18	TEODORO BAÑAS v. ASIA PACIFIC FINANCE CORPORATION BELLOSILLO, J.
evidence. In the instant case, the records do not show even a preponderance of evidence in favor of petitioners' claim that the Deed of Chattel Mortgage and Continuing Undertaking were never intended by the parties to be legal, valid and binding. Notarial documents are evidence of the facts in clear and unequivocal manner therein expressed.[11] Interestingly, petitioners' assertions were based mainly on the self-serving testimony of Cenen Dizon, and not on any other independent evidence. His testimony is not only unconvincing, as found by the trial court and the Court of Appeals, but also self-defeating in light of
	GR No. 128703 2000-10-18	TEODORO BAÑAS v. ASIA PACIFIC FINANCE CORPORATION BELLOSILLO, J.
evidence. In the instant case, the records do not show even a preponderance of evidence in favor of petitioners' claim that the Deed of Chattel Mortgage and Continuing Undertaking were never intended by the parties to be legal, valid and binding. Notarial documents are evidence of the facts in clear and unequivocal manner therein expressed.[11] Interestingly, petitioners' assertions were based mainly on the self-serving testimony of Cenen Dizon, and not on any other independent evidence. His testimony is not only unconvincing, as found by the trial court and the Court of Appeals, but also self-defeating in light of