Definition of Notary

1. Noun. Someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions.

Exact synonyms: Notary Public
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Generic synonyms: Functionary, Official
Derivative terms: Notarize

Definition of Notary

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

Definition of Notary

1. Noun. (context: legal often 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. ¹

2. Noun. (context: common law) A notary public, a legal practitioner who prepares, attests to, and certifies documents, witnesses affidavits, and administers oaths. ¹

3. Noun. (context: 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. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Notary

1. a public officer who certifies documents [n -RIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Notary

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notary (current term)
notary public
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Literary usage of Notary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"The notary knew that the maker resided on bis plantation, ... The notary testified that, in his endeavors to make presentment of the notes for pay ment, ..."

2. A Treatise on the Law of Negligence by Thomas Gaskell Shearman, Amasa Angell Redfield, Robert Gould Street (1913)
"Defences by notary. — Notwithstanding the negligence of a notary in the presentment, protest, or notice of dishonor of a bill, yet where the holder, ..."

3. A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and by John Barnard Byles, Maurice Barnard Byles, Walter John Barnard Byles (1899)
"Office of a notary. But a protest is not necessary on a foreign promissory note, nor on a bill, though really a foreign bill, that does not show that on its ..."

4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"The strict words of the paragraph of the Constitution just quoted prohibit the appointment of more than one commissioned notary public for each militia ..."

5. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1843)
"Easiness of a notary as well as that of an Attorney, Solicitor, or them not di*. served any such Public notary, being also an Attorney, Solicitor, ..."

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