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jbelmont
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 Posted - 03/09/2007 : 4:33:23 PM
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jbelmont:
I think it would be interesting to put together a sampling of articles about the origins of the notary profession. One of my best clients recommended the idea to me last night. Here is a link to a quick article that I liked - http://soswy.state.wy.us/notary/history.htm
It would be fun to get some longer articles if any of you can find any.
dfye@mcttelecom.com
Here is an interesting link:
http://www.learnedcounsel.com/notaryhistory.html
ORIGIN AND EARLY HISTORY OF OFFICE from Anderson's Manual for Notaries Public, 5th ed. Read below.
In the early days of the Roman Republic there were persons who made it a business to draw important documents, and do other writing for whoever might employ them. Their number and importance increased with the growth of the wealth and power of the Roman Empire, under various titles such as scriba, cursor, tabularius, tabellio, exceptor, actuarius, and notarius, according to the time in which they lived and the duties which they performed. In the latter days of the Empire, they had become more or less subject to regulation by law. Some of their acts had been accorded such a degree of authenticity as to be specially designated as public instruments themselves, and were required to be deposited in public archives.
These quasi officials, and the regulations by law concerning them, spread to a greater or lesser degree into the various provinces of Rome, including, among others, the present nations of France, Spain, and England.
They were well known funtionaries in the territories of Charlemagne, who invested their acts with public authority and provided for their appointment by his deputies in every locality. He provided that each bishop, abbot, and count should have a notary. That they acted as conveyancers, in some instances at least, in England, even before the Norman conquest, is shown by the fact that a grant of lands and manors was made by King Edward the Confessor, to the Abbot of Westminster by a charter written and attested by a notary.
In England, notaries have always considered themselves authorized to administer oaths, and this power is now expressly conferred on them by statutte. They protest foreign bills of exchange, and their certificate of the presentment, demand, and dishonor of such bills, and of their protest thereof on account of such dishonor, is itself proof of these matters. The law in the United States is similar, and is often so declared by the statutes of the various states and other jurisdictions.
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