notary, notary public
(noun) someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document’s validity and to take depositions
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.
• (notary authorised to practise non-contentious civil law): civil law notary; Latin notary; notary-at-law
• 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
28 March 2025
(noun) a person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
