Category: Notary Dictionary

  • Jurisdiction

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Jurisdiction Meaning of Jurisdiction The extent of legal authority and power . A term of large and comprehensive import , it generally denotes the lawful authority of a body to exercise power. The term […]

  • Civil Liability

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Civil liability Meaning of Civil liability Amenability to a civil action, as distinguished from amenability to criminal prosecution. Browse You might be interested in these references tools: […]

  • Electronic Signature

    Any Electronic Character, Symbol, Letter, Sound, Or Process That Has Been Attached To Or Logically Associated With An Electronic Record, And Executed Or Adopted By A Person With The Intent That It Shall Be His Signature….

  • Ethics

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Ethics Meaning of Ethics The basic principles of right action . Ethics of a profession are the general body of rules, written or unwritten, relative to the conduct of the members of the profession […]

  • Conveyance

    A mode by which property is conveyed or voluntarily transferred from one person to another by means of a written instrument and other formalities. It also signifies the instrument itself. Includes every instrument which transfers an interest in or creates a charge of lands. A […]

  • Conveyance

    A mode by which property is conveyed or voluntarily transferred from one person to another by means of a written instrument and other formalities. It also signifies the instrument itself. Includes every instrument which transfers an interest in or creates a charge of lands. A […]

  • Executor

    One appointed by a testator to carry out the directions and bequests in his will and to dispose of the property according to his testamentary provisions after his decease. A woman thus appointed is called an executrix , although the term executor may apply to a woman if that is the […]

  • Commission

    An authority to do some act, such as the authority of an agent to enter into a contract or the authority of an officer to hold the office or title . An amount payable to an agent upon the agent performing the act contracted for. Usually expressed in terms of a percentage , but […]

  • Deponent

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Deponent Meaning of Deponent witness ; one who gives information on oath or affirmation , respecting some fact known to him, before a judicial tribunal ; one who makes a deposition . See Bliss v […]

  • Competence

    Sufficient ability or fitness for ones needs. Possessing the necessary abilities to be qualified to achieve a certain goal or complete a project….

  • Competence

    Sufficient ability or fitness for ones needs. Possessing the necessary abilities to be qualified to achieve a certain goal or complete a project….

  • Forgery

    Specific offense in nature of counterfeiting and involves the manufacture of false or spurious document itself. Forgery includes any act which fraudulently makes an instrument purport to be what it is not. People v Susalla, 220 N. W.2d 405, 392 Mich. 387.

  • Grantor

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Grantor Meaning of Grantor A person who makes a grant . Grantor Alternative Definition He by whom a grant is made. […]

  • Civil Action

    One founded on private rights . Western union v Taylor, 11 S.E. 396, 84 Ga. 408. Encompasses equitable or legal relief or both. Luddington v Merrill, 71 A. 504, 81 Conn. 400.

  • Capacity

    The meaning of this word depends on the assent to any contract. See Smith v Thornhill (Texas) 25 S. W.2d 597; Ashley v Holman, 15 S. C. 97.