Notary Supplies, Notary Stamps and Seals

A notary public (or notary or public notary) is a public officer constituted by law to serve the public in non-contentious matters usually concerned with estates, deeds, powers-of-attorney, and foreign and international business. A notary's main functions are to administer oaths and affirmations, take affidavits and statutory declarations, witness and authenticate the execution of certain classes of documents, take acknowledgments of deeds and other conveyances, protest notes and bills of exchange, provide notice of foreign drafts, prepare marine protests in cases of damage, provide exemplifications and notarial copies, and perform certain other official acts depending on the jurisdiction."Notaries Public", Montgomery County, Alabama Probate Judge: [http://www.mc-ala.org/Home/Elected%20Officials/Probate%20Judge/probate_notaries.html], retrieved on 20 January 2009. Any such act is known as a notarization. The term notary public...