notary
/ˈnəʊt(ə)ri
/(in full notary public)
noun (plural notaries)
A person authorized to perform certain legal formalities, especially to draw up or certify contracts, deeds, and other documents for use in other jurisdictions.It was drawn up by a notary and was a binding contract....
- These would be produced - to much hilarity - to notaries when signing legal documents and on other official occasions.
- The heart of their study is a large sample of loan contracts drawn by Parisian notaries.
Derivatives
notarial
/ adjective ...- That the appellant notary acted in accordance with the then general notarial practice does not seem to be contested.
- The notarial deeds provided by the notary public offices in Shanghai are accepted in over 100 countries, which shows that local notaries' work is highly accurate.
- Given the vast amount of notarial records, the authors focused on 10 notaries at roughly ten-year increments.
notarially
Origin
Middle English (in the sense 'clerk or secretary'): from Latin notarius 'secretary', from nota 'mark'.
Rhymes
- granny bonnet
- granny chic
- granny dumping
- granny flat
- granny gear
- granny glasses
- granny knot
- granny's bend
- granny's bonnet
- granny-sit
- granny-sitter
- granny-sitting
- granny's knot
- Granny Smith
- granny's nightcap
- granny square
- granny tax
- granodiorite
- granola
- granolithic
- granophyre
- granophyric
- gran'pap
- grant
- grantable