What is a notarial certificate?
Acknowledgment: The acknowledgment is perhaps the most widely performed notarial act, so this is the certificate you’re likely to come across most often. Its main purpose is to ensure positive identification of the signer to verify that the person named in the document is, in fact, the person who signed it. An acknowledgment provides assurance that a signer is not an impostor trying to benefit in some way from a falsified document. When executing an acknowledgment, the Notary carefully identifies the document signer, who acknowledges having freely signed the document. Acknowledgment of a signature before a Notary is a critical step leading to a document’s acceptance by a county recorder. Real estate deeds, for example, and many other papers relating to ownership of valuable property must have their signatures acknowledged before the documents can be placed in the public record. So, to simplify: An acknowledgment certificate is used when the signer proves to you that he or she is in fac
