Notary

['nəʊt(ə)rɪ] or ['notəri]

Definition

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

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Definition

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

(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.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Notary public.

Typist: Zamenhof

Definition

n. an officer authorised to certify deeds contracts copies of documents affidavits &c.—generally called a Notary public—anciently one who took notes or memoranda of others' acts.—adj. Notā′rial.—adv. Notā′rially.—Apostolical notary the official who despatches the orders of the Pope; Ecclesiastical notary in the early church a secretary who recorded the proceedings of councils &c.

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