What's the difference between notary and scrivener?

Notary


Definition:

  • (n.) One who records in shorthand what is said or done; as, the notary of an ecclesiastical body.
  • (n.) A public officer who attests or certifies deeds and other writings, or copies of them, usually under his official seal, to make them authentic, especially in foreign countries. His duties chiefly relate to instruments used in commercial transactions, such as protests of negotiable paper, ship's papers in cases of loss, damage, etc. He is generally called a notary public.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In order to be eligible to run, candidates must get at least 30,000 signatures from people in various governorates that must be officially notarised at a public notary office.
  • (2) Beyond the fact that there is a specific pre-criminal situation: dealing with contracts, assets, funds etc... the authors notices in several cases a discrepancy between the weak and immature personality of some notaries and the importance of the office with which they are entrusted.
  • (3) The association of estate agents, FNAIM, predicts a fall of 5% on average, and the French notary association sees a drop of between 5%-10%, while Crédit Agricole, one of France's largest banks, puts the falls at 5%-6%.
  • (4) They make bank executives hand over information about clients, and get notaries to sign away properties at gunpoint.
  • (5) The task of psychiatrist as expert is specified, and in conclusion the indispensibility of close cooperation between state notary and psychiatrist is emphasized.
  • (6) According to Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung, Gurlitt was visited in hospital by a notary in February or March to draw up a will.
  • (7) When the Guardian mentioned Natasha's case to the local council, asking what they were doing to help the poorest members of the community, the notary asked us a question instead of answering ours.
  • (8) Scarano, already under house arrest following his high-profile detention last June , was accused alongside another priest and a notary.
  • (9) 5 children had received official approval from the court; of the remaining adoptees, 1 was given temporary approval by the notary and 12 by the local district head.
  • (10) Product market: the government will open restricted professions such as engineers, notaries and court bailiffs.
  • (11) Espinoza, knowing better than most the devious ways of the circles in which he moved, he took the precaution of swearing this affidavit before a notary.
  • (12) Considering 11 cases of psychiatric expert reports in criminal cases, the author's aim is to describe the criminological aspects of offences by notaries, mainly swindle and breach of trust.
  • (13) Labour market laws must be overhauled, consumer markets including energy deregulated, and restricted professions such as notaries, actuaries and bailiffs opened up.
  • (14) The rocking movements of the notarial-synsacral joint appear to be important for ventilation during conditions in which the sternum is 'fixed', such as when the bird is resting on its breast.
  • (15) M. longissimus dorsi acts at the notarial-synsacral junction to elevate the pelvis.
  • (16) Greece will re-write the regulations covering a series of jobs, including “the restricted professions of notaries, actuaries, and bailiffs”.
  • (17) Find ways to encourage their spiritual growth, lest they yield to the temptation to become notaries and bureaucrats,” he said.

Scrivener


Definition:

  • (n.) A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings.
  • (n.) One whose business is to place money at interest; a broker.
  • (n.) A writing master.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
  • (2) It’s probably safer to reject this scheme,” says Scrivener.
  • (3) * In Chancery, having noted My Lady Dedlock's interest, Mr Tulkinghorn is enquiring about the identity of the scrivener.
  • (4) I have seven days.’” “My reaction at the time was: ‘You’re just talking crazy,’” Scriven, 22, told the Washington Post.
  • (5) Unjust debt, says Scrivener, is often “dictator debt” – money lent by rich countries to poor countries ruled by strongmen, who commonly used it to finance military ventures or vast follies.
  • (6) I don’t think he’s always there.” Scriven also told NBC News that Roof may have changed his plans after deciding the college campus was a harder target to access.
  • (7) A few years ago - Bartleby the Scrivener should have been living at that hour - I had the idea of recording the titles and authors of books as I read them.
  • (8) But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing."
  • (9) Tim Gore, Oxfam’s global head of policy for food and climate change says: “They are two separate issues and just merging the two, you could argue, is one way to let developed countries off the hook.” “It’s definitely an interesting proposal, but I think it’s fundamentally unjust,” says Alex Scrivener, a policy officer for the World Development Movement .
  • (10) Paul Scriven, the Liberal Democrat leader of Sheffield council, said: "Maybe in three or four years time, people will look back and say they were a little bit harsh to the Liberal Democrats."
  • (11) Shirley Scrivener Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire • If we’re going to abolish noxious two-word phrases, how about “throwing money”, from any politician refusing to fund a service properly (eg David Prior, Letters, 12 November ).
  • (12) From as far away as Edinburgh and Cornwall, by car, train and bus, the crowd had started marching from the Embankment at 11.30am – and tail-enders such as Graham Scrivener and Flora Wilson, both Hackney teachers, only reached the park gates at five, long after most marchers had started streaming home.
  • (13) He just said he was going to hurt a bunch of people” at the college of Charleston, Scriven told AP.
  • (14) Liberal Democrat spokesman Lord Scriven said Labour had a shameful record on midwifery when in government, overseeing a critical shortage of staff.
  • (15) Richard Scrivener, a former assistant strength and conditioning coach at Northampton Saints rugby club, says that while the benefits are clear, Tabatas are an addition, not a replacement, to a favoured sport or training method.
  • (16) David Scriven is contemplating a move from the home where he and his wife brought up six children.
  • (17) "With the financial sector shrouded in secrecy, it will be very hard to do anything more than estimate the true extent of involvement that UK financial and investment institutions have in fossil fuel projects in places such as Indonesia ," said Alex Scrivener, author of the WDM report.
  • (18) But Scriven and another friend, Joey Meek, were concerned enough to go out to Roof’s car and retrieve his .45-caliber handgun, hiding it in an air-conditioning vent of a mobile home until they all sobered up.
  • (19) Another leading QC, Anthony Scrivener, called Mr Carman "simply the best cross-examiner in the business".
  • (20) Melville's short story, "Bartleby the Scrivener," describing in telling detail the response of a sympathetic lawyer to profound and pervasive negativism in his legal scribe, is discussed as a literary analogy to the analyst-analysand dyad.