When contracts, agreements, and a plethora of other legal papers are executed (signed), a notary public can serve as an official witness. Additionally, a notary can certify that documents are identical copies of the original. Notarization is the official act performed by a notary. In addition, a notary can administer solemn affirmations, declarations, and oaths—all of which are frequently employed in statutory declarations and affidavits. Please remember that in order for the notary to notarize your signature, you must sign in front of her.
When a document is signed in front of a notary, it gives people assurance that the signer is who they say they are. In the modern era, when contracts are frequently made between parties thousands of kilometers distant, notaries offer a useful service by reducing some of the risk involved. Stated differently, it makes it more difficult for a party to a contract to later claim that they did not sign the document.
Are you trying to find somewhere to get your documents notarized? Juris Notary provides notary services in British Columbia’s (BC) Lower Mainland to facilitate your search.
In certain jurisdictions, a notary can also draft wills, mortgages, promissory notes, contracts, and other legal documents. State or provincial laws in each state or province are virtually always the source of a notary public’s authority. However, the laws of the majority of provinces are only codifications of the common law that existed before them.
“A notary public has and may use and exercise the power of drawing, passing, keeping, and issuing all deeds and contracts, charter-parties, and other mercantile transactions in Ontario, as well as of attesting all commercial instruments that may be brought before him or her for public protestation, and otherwise of acting as is usual in the office of notary public, and,” according to the Notaries Act in Ontario, for instance.
In many nations, including several Canadian provinces, the requirements to become a notary public are so stringent that only lawyers are eligible to perform all notary public functions. Despite being different, the requirements in Quebec are comparable to those in the US. Since the legal profession is essentially divided, you can want the services of an avocat or notaire depending on the circumstances.
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