(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.
Votary
Definition:
(a.) Consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised.
(n.) One devoted, consecrated, or engaged by a vow or promise; hence, especially, one devoted, given, or addicted, to some particular service, worship, study, or state of life.
Example Sentences:
(1) A weirdly prescient vignette in Cyril Connolly's Enemies Of Promise (1938) called Dunglass "a votary of the esoteric Eton religion, the kind of graceful, tolerant, sleepy boy who is showered with favours and crowned with all the laurels, who is liked by the masters and admired by the boys without any apparent exertion on his part, without experiencing the ill-effects of success himself or arousing the pangs of envy in others.
(2) I became a votary of the Boris cult,” the justice secretary wrote in 2005.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest V&A Collection Andrea Riccio Satyr and Satyress (1510-1520) V&A, London In Greek and Roman mythology satyrs are goat-legged followers of the wine god Bacchus, hairy votaries of sex, dance and ecstasy.
(4) A sign, perhaps, that the votaries of the free market remain fearful of any challenges from below.
(5) Those sober, suited, serious people, who now pronounce themselves the only adults in the room , turn out to be demented utopian fantasists, votaries of a fanatical economic cult.
(6) Those sober, suited, serious people turn out to be demented utopian fantasists, votaries of a fanatical economic cult All this is but a recent chapter in the long tradition of subordinating human welfare to financial power.