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• #NOTARIZED MEANING REGISTRATION#

"Electronic notarial act" or "electronic notarization" means an official act by a notary under § 47.1-12 or as otherwise authorized by law that involves electronic documents. "Electronic document" means information that is created, generated, sent, communicated, received, or stored by electronic means.

"Electronic" means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. "Document" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form, including a record as defined in the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (§ 59.1-479 et seq.). "Credible witness" means an honest, reliable, and impartial person who personally knows an individual appearing before a notary and takes an oath or affirmation from the notary to confirm that individual's identity. "Credential analysis" means a process or service that independently affirms the veracity of a government-issued identity credential by reviewing public or proprietary data sources and meets the standards of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. "Copy certification" means a notarial act in which a notary (i) is presented with a document that is not a public record (ii) copies or supervises the copying of the document using a photographic or electronic copying process (iii) compares the document to the copy and (iv) determines that the copy is accurate and complete.

#NOTARIZED MEANING REGISTRATION#

"Commissioned notary public" means that the applicant has completed and submitted the registration forms along with the appropriate fee to the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the Secretary of the Commonwealth has determined that the applicant meets the qualifications to be a notary public and issues a notary commission and forwards same to the clerk of the circuit court, pursuant to this chapter. "Affirmation" means a notarial act, or part thereof, that is legally equivalent to an oath and in which an individual at a single time and place (i) appears in person before the notary and presents a document (ii) is personally known to the notary or identified by the notary through satisfactory evidence of identity and (iii) makes a vow of truthfulness or fidelity on penalty of perjury. "Acknowledgment" means a notarial act in which an individual at a single time and place (i) appears in person before the notary and presents a document (ii) is personally known to the notary or identified by the notary through satisfactory evidence of identity and (iii) indicates to the notary that the signature on the document was voluntarily affixed by the individual for the purposes stated within the document and, if applicable, that the individual had due authority to sign in a particular representative capacity. Such as a certified copy of a birth certificate.As used in this title, unless the context demands a different meaning: An example is an affidavit.Ĭertified copies are a copy of the original document certified by the Notary Public that is true, exact and compete as the original document. Jurats are for a signer to swear to a Notary Public that the statements in the document are true. Documents conveying ownership or important rights, such as real property deeds, powers of attorney, and trust, usually need to be acknowledged by a Notary Public.

There are several types of notarial acts, and the most common ones are: acknowledgments, jurats, and certified copies.Īcknowledgements are for a Notary Public to certify that the signatures on the document belong to signers present in front of the Notary Public.

Notarization is performed by a Notary Public, who will check the signer’s identification, volition and awareness, and keep key details of the notarization in the Notary’s “journal of notarial acts”, and sign and seal the document that is being notarized. Notarization is a fraud-deterrent process that assures the parties of a transaction that a document is authentic.