Legal Dictionary

Category: Notary Dictionary

  • Endorsement

    In relation to negotiable instruments, the term denotes the assignment or transfer of same by the act of signing one’s name on the back of the instrument. Where the transfer is done by a separate document, it is not an endorsement but an assignment. See Cooper v Bank of New Mexico, 423 […]

  • Commercial Paper

    Negotiable instruments, including checks, notes, bearer bonds, drafts, certificates of deposits and promissory notes. See Aurora v West, 7 Wall. 82, 19 L.Ed. 42; Bank of Newport v Cook, 60 Ark. 288, 30 S. W. 35; and Royal Jewelers, Inc. v Tanner, 95 Ohio App. 339, 108 N.E.2d291. See also […]

  • Incompetent

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Incompetent Meaning of Incompetent Lack of ability; lacking in skill. Wanting in legal capacity . A person who is still legally an infant , that is, has not realized his age of majority , is legally […]

  • Hand

    In legal phraseology, the term means signature or handwriting. Kauffman v Crist. 124 A.2d 1, 11 Terry. 108. In relation to horses, a measure of height equal to 4 inches.

  • Administer

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Administer Meaning of Administer To manage or conduct ; to have charge or direction of. To give, supply, provide with, apply , as medicine or treatment . To tender , as an oath.The assets of an estate […]

  • Duress

    Imprisonment , compulsion . It consists in any illegal imprisonment, or legal imprisonment used for an illegal purpose, or threats of bodily or other harm, or other means amounting to or tending to coerce the will of another, and actually inducing him to do an act contrary to his free […]

  • Fraudulent

    adjectivebeguiling bogus cheating conniving contrary to fact corrupt counterfeited crafty crooked cunning deceitful deceiving deceptive delusive delusory …

  • Digital Signature

    A Specific Type Of Electronic Signature Used To Denote Encryption Technology. It Is A Process That Provides For A Secure Signature On An Electronic Document, One That Can Prove The Signature Belongs To The Person Who Signed It, And That Can Be Associated With The Document In Such A Way That Any […]

  • Acknowledge

    To own or admit as implying obligation or incurring responsibility.

  • L.S. (Locus Sigilli)

    Indicates Where The Official Notary Seal Imprint Is To Be Placed. Latin Term Locus Sigilli Means place Of The Seal….

  • Journal Entry

    A Detailed Description (information Recorded) Of The Notarial Act Preserved In A Bound Book….

  • Journal Of Notarial Acts

    Detailed, Chronological Record Of Official Acts Of A Notary Public….

  • Journal, Notarial

    Official Record Book Of Notarizations By A Notary Public….

  • Identification Document

    In The Event A Notary Does Not Personally Know (see Personally Known Below) The Signer, The Notary May Accept An Identification Document That Is Deemed Acceptable By The State Notary Law….

  • Impartial Witness

    Unbiased And Disinterested Party Who Will Not Gain Financially Or In Any Other Way From The Transaction….