NOTARY

notary, notary public

(noun) someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document’s validity and to take depositions

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

notary (plural notaries)

(legal, especially civil law) A lawyer of noncontentious private civil law who drafts, takes, and records legal instruments for private parties, and provides legal advice, but does not appear in court on clients' behalf.

(common law) A notary public, a legal practitioner who prepares, attests to, and certifies documents, witnesses affidavits, and administers oaths.

(legal, Canada, US) A lay notary public, who serves as an impartial witness to the signing of important documents, but who is not authorised to practise law.

Synonyms

• (notary authorised to practise non-contentious civil law): civil law notary; Latin notary; notary-at-law

Anagrams

• Ayrton, Troyan, aroynt, tonary

Source: Wiktionary


No"ta*ry, n.; pl. Notaries. Etym: [F. notaire, L. notarius notary (in sense 1), fr. nota mark. See 5th Note.]

1. One who records in shorthand what is said or done; as, the notary of an ecclesiastical body.

2. (Eng. & Am. Law)

Definition: A public officer who attests or certifies deeds and other writings, or copies of them, usually under his official seal, to make them authentic, especially in foreign countries. His duties chiefly relate to instruments used in commercial transactions, such as protests of negotiable paper, ship's papers in cases of loss, damage, etc. He is generally called a notary public.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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