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n. A notary public.

n. 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.

n. A notary public, a legal practitioner who prepares, attests to, and certifies documents, witnesses affidavits, and administers oaths.

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

n. One who records in shorthand what is said or done.

n. 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.

n. In the earlier history of writing, a person whose vocation it was to make notes or memoranda of acts of others who wished to preserve evidence of them, and to reduce to writing deeds and contracts.

n. A public officer authorized by law to perform similar functions, and to authenticate the execution of deeds and contracts, and the accuracy of copies of documents, and to take affidavits and administer oaths.

Corrupt forms of notory.

n. someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions

"Finally, there is the class of persons to whom the term notary is restricted in common parlance, to wit, those who are appointed by the proper authorities to witness the documentary proceedings between private persons and to impress them with legal authenticity."

functionary    official   

ecclesiastical notary    apostolical notary    notary public    tabellion    scrivener   

notary public   

scrivener    greffier    prothonotary    protonotary   

coterie    rotary   

treasurer    vicar    solicitor    scribe    chaplain    accountant    barrister    prosecutor    secretary    commissioner