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- Louisiana Civil Law Notary: Louisiana Notary MeaningLouisiana notaries are public officials with broader statutory powers than notaries in many states, including receiving certain instruments.
- Notary Commission: Louisiana Notary MeaningA commission is the state's authority for a person to act as a Louisiana notary.
- Parish of Commission: Louisiana Notary MeaningA Louisiana notary's commission is associated with a parish and may interact with statewide or reciprocal authority under current law.
- Notary Commission Number: Louisiana Notary MeaningThe commission or identification number helps identify the commissioned notary on records and official forms.
- Notary Bond: Louisiana Notary MeaningLouisiana's Secretary of State lists a $50,000 notary surety-bond or personal-surety requirement for applicable notaries.
- Errors-and-Omissions Insurance: Louisiana Notary MeaningErrors-and-omissions coverage is private insurance that may address covered professional errors.
- Personal Appearance: Louisiana Notary MeaningPersonal appearance means the signer participates before the notary in the manner required for the act.
- Satisfactory Evidence of Identity: Louisiana Notary MeaningIdentity evidence depends on the notarial act.
- Signer Willingness: Louisiana Notary MeaningA notarial act requires a willing participant.
- Notary Refusal: Louisiana Notary MeaningA notary may refuse when identity, willingness, communication, completeness, authority, witnesses, certificate wording, or legality is not satisfactorily established.
- Acknowledgment: Louisiana Notary MeaningAn acknowledgment records that a person personally appeared and acknowledged executing the instrument.
- Jurat: Louisiana Notary MeaningA jurat records that the signer appeared, took an oath or affirmation, and signed or swore as the certificate requires.
- Oath: Louisiana Notary MeaningAn oath is a solemn promise of truthfulness or faithful performance made in the form permitted by law.
- Affirmation: Louisiana Notary MeaningAn affirmation is a solemn nonreligious equivalent of an oath.
- Affidavit: Louisiana Notary MeaningAn affidavit is a written factual statement made under oath before an authorized official.
- Authentic Act: Louisiana Notary MeaningA Louisiana authentic act is a writing executed before a notary or other authorized officer, in the presence of two witnesses, with the required signatures and names under Civil Code Article 1833.
- Act Under Private Signature: Louisiana Notary MeaningAn act under private signature is signed by the parties without the full formalities of an authentic act.
- Mandate: Louisiana Notary MeaningMandate is Louisiana's civil-law term for authority a principal confers on a mandatary.
- Principal: Louisiana Notary MeaningThe principal is the person who grants authority in a mandate.
- Mandatary: Louisiana Notary MeaningThe mandatary is the person authorized to act for the principal within the mandate's terms.
- Competent Witness: Louisiana Notary MeaningA competent witness must satisfy the document and legal qualifications for the act.
- Notarial Venue: Louisiana Notary MeaningVenue identifies the state and parish where the notarial act occurs or is legally situated.
- Notarial Certificate: Louisiana Notary MeaningA notarial certificate records the act the notary performed.
- Notary Signature and Identification: Louisiana Notary MeaningLouisiana R.S.
- Multiple Originals: Louisiana Notary MeaningMultiple originals are separate counterpart documents intended to function as originals.
- Remote Online Notarial Act: Louisiana Notary MeaningA remote online notarial act uses approved communication technology under current Louisiana law.
- Electronic Signature: Louisiana Notary MeaningAn electronic signature is data used with intent to sign an electronic record.
- Electronic Notary Seal: Louisiana Notary MeaningAn electronic seal or credential is applied within an authorized electronic-notarization system.
- Identity Proofing: Louisiana Notary MeaningIdentity proofing uses approved methods to establish the remote signer's identity.
- Credential Analysis: Louisiana Notary MeaningCredential analysis examines an identity credential through approved technology.
- Communication Technology: Louisiana Notary MeaningCommunication technology provides the real-time audio-visual connection and required records for a remote act.
- Remote Notary Record: Louisiana Notary MeaningLouisiana R.S.
- Remote Witness: Louisiana Notary MeaningFor a Louisiana remote online notarial act, a required witness must be physically present with the party.
- Excluded Remote Act: Louisiana Notary MeaningSome documents or acts are restricted or excluded from remote notarization.
- Remote Signer Location: Louisiana Notary MeaningThe location of both signer and notary can affect authority, certificate venue, and eligibility.
- Recordation: Louisiana Notary MeaningRecordation places an eligible instrument in the public records maintained by the proper clerk.
- Conveyance Records: Louisiana Notary MeaningConveyance records generally concern transfers and interests in immovable property.
- Mortgage Records: Louisiana Notary MeaningMortgage records concern mortgages, liens, privileges, releases, and related instruments.
- Certified Copy: Louisiana Notary MeaningA certified copy is authenticated by an official legally authorized to certify that record.
- Copy Certification: Louisiana Notary MeaningCopy certification is limited by the kind of document and the notary's lawful authority.
- Apostille: Louisiana Notary MeaningAn apostille is a state certification used for qualifying public documents destined for participating countries.
- Authentication: Louisiana Notary MeaningAuthentication is a certification route for documents that do not use the apostille process or require an additional chain.
- Hague Apostille Convention: Louisiana Notary MeaningThe convention creates a standardized apostille process among participating countries.
- Clerk of Court Recording: Louisiana Notary MeaningThe parish clerk receives eligible records under local and state requirements.
- Recording Rejection: Louisiana Notary MeaningA clerk or agency may reject a notarized document for reasons beyond the notarial certificate, including form, names, legal description, attachments, fees, authority, or filing route.