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notarial

notarial

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Relating to a public official who witnesses and signs important papers
  • adjective
  • /nəˈtɛrɪəl/
  • Formal
: notarial
  • The bookseller paid the notarial fees and took Claude to the guildhall, where all had been prepared.

Examples

  • The transfer of signatures, monograms, and seals all restaged with notarial conviction the symbolic events of original donations.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The sources for my argument are the same as those used by most historians and anthropologists of the early colonial period: chronicles (mainly first-hand reports of conquest and settlement) as well as administrative, notarial, and legal documents written in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

    Academic text (2000)
  • "Capuces were not at this time part of tribute, but there are various contracts for their sale in northern notarial records.

    Academic text (2000)
  • At stake is Vierzon's appropriation of the notarial authority of Rome.

    Academic text (1999)
  • In reality, the processes by which the qadis lost their judicial and notarial powers and functions were much more gradual and incomplete than the registrar claimed.

    Academic text (2004)
  • As the two walked to the notarial office, Livre discoursed on the unsteadiness of mankind and the need for the contractual formalities of indenture.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • It has also enhanced the quality and completeness of its "title documents," mostly issued through administrative acts by housing authorities or agrarian reform bureaucrats, through a resurging notarial profession.

    Academic text (2016)
  • By calling attention to Roman institutions, spiritual as well as scribal, this opening illustration would stamp Vierzon's new codex with the irrefutable pedigree of papal notarial practice.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Furthermore, as cartularies differ widely in their form and content, making generalization extremely difficult, this study focuses exclusively on the Vierzon Cartulary, whose assembly of images and notarial signs nonetheless provides a cross-section of transcribing strategies.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The lawyer prepared the contract and added her notarial seal to authenticate the document.

Surface Forms

notarial positive

Morphology

notarial = notary (transparent) = notary + al

The adjective is a regular formation meaning 'relating to a notary,' which is straightforward once the noun base is known.

Etymology

Notarial comes from the Latin words notarius and nota, where nota means 'mark' or 'note' and a notarius was someone who made official notes. That's why something notarial is about officially 'marking' or recording signatures and papers.