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"Acknowledgment"
1. The act of admitting or recognizing the existence of an agreement by signing as evidence of one's intention that the agreement shall be binding and in full force and effect. 2. The certificate affixed to the document. 3. A notary act where the signer acknowledges to the notary that they signed a particular document in the past. In such a notary act, the signer must sign the notary's journal in the notary's presence, but can sign the document before appearing before the notary. A common misspelling of this word is Acknowledgement which contains an additional "e" in the middle of the word.