notary
noun/ˈnəʊtəri/
/ˈnəʊtəri/
(plural notaries)
(also notary public
(law)(plural notaries public)
)- a person, especially a lawyer, with official authority to be a witness when somebody signs a document and to make this document legally acceptableTopics Law and justicec2Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘clerk or secretary’): from Latin notarius ‘secretary’, from nota ‘mark’.
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