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will 1 : the desire, inclination, or choice of a person or group 2 : the faculty of wishing, choosing, desiring, or intending 3 : a legal declaration of a person's wishes regarding the disposal of his or her property after death ;esp : a formally executed written instrument by which a person makes disposition of his or her estate to take effect after death see also codicil, living will, testament antenuptial will : a will that was executed by a person prior to that person's marriage and is usually revocable by the court if no provision was made for the person's spouse unless an intention not to make such a provision is manifest conditional will : a will intended to take effect upon a certain contingency and usually construed as having absolute force when the language pertaining to the condition suggests a general purpose to make a will counter will : mutual will in this entry holographic will : a will written out in the hand of the testator and accepted as valid in many sta...
protest
protest 1 : a solemn declaration of opinion and usually of disagreement: as a : a solemn written declaration by a notary public or U.S. consul on behalf of the holder of an instrument (as a note) announcing dishonor and declaring the liability of all parties to the instrument for any loss or damage arising from such action ;also : the action of making or causing to be made such a declaration with due service of notice of dishonor b : a declaration made by the master of a ship before a notary, consul, or other authorized officer upon arrival in port after a disaster declaring that any loss was not the fault of the crew but due to the disaster c : a declaration made by a party esp. before or while paying a tax or performing a demanded act by which the declarer asserts that the justice or legality of the tax or act is disputed and that compliance is not voluntary 2 : the act of objecting or a gesture of disapproval ;esp : a usually organized public demonstration of disapproval ...
notarial
notarial : of, relating to, or characteristic of a notary public ;also : done, executed, framed, or taken by a notary public [ documents] no·tar·i·al·ly adv ...
Note a Bill, To
Note a Bill, To. When a foreign bill has been dishonoured, it is usual for a notary public to present it again on the same day, and if it be not then paid, to make a minute, consisting of his initials, the day, month, and year, and reason, if assigned, of non-payment. The making of this minute is called 'noting the bill.' See NOTING, and Smith's Merc. Law; Byles on Bills....
Declaration in lieu of oath
Declaration in lieu of oath. By the (English) Statutory Declarations Act, 1835 (5 & 6Wm. 4, c. 62), any justice of the peace, notary public, or other officer authorized to administer an oath, is empowered to take voluntary declarations in the form specified in the Act; and any person wilfully making suchdeclaration false in any material particular is guilty of a misdemeanour. The form given by the Act of 1835 is as follows:--I, A.B., do solemnly and sincerely declare that and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the (English) Statutory Declarations Act, 1835....
Faculty
Faculty, 'Faculty' means Faculty of the University. [Central Agricultural University Act, 1992 (40 of 1994), s. 2(k)][fr. facultas, Lat., power], a licence or authority; in Ecclesiastical Law a privilege granted by the ordinary to a man by favour and indulgence to do that which by law he may not do, e.g., to marry without banns, to erect a monument in a church, to construct a church window, Egerton v. All of Odd Rode, 1894, P. 15, or to remove what has been put up under a previous faculty (Re St. Margaret's, Westminster, 1905, P. 286), and see NOTARY and previous title....
Graffer
Graffer, a notary, or scrivener, 5 Hen. 8. C. 1...
Kabani
Kabani, a person who, in Oriental states, supplies the place of our notary public. All obligations, to be valid, are drawn by him; and he is also the public weigh-master; and everything of consequence ought to be weighed before him....
Ne varietur
Ne varietur, means 'it must not be altered'. A notation of identity that a person usually a notary, place on documents or translations of documents, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1063...
Verification
Verification, the proper form of concluding (under the old system of pleading) any pleading after the declaration alleging new matter. It was made in the words, 'And this he is ready to verify.' It was rendered unnecessary by (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 67.A formal declaration made in presence of an authorised officer, such as notary public, by which one saviors to trust of statements in document, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1556....
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