Ohio Notary Test Questions and answers, Rated A. 2022 version

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acknowledgment - ✔✔notarial act in which a notary certifies having positively identified a document signer who personally appeared before the notary and admitted having signed the document freely ... affidavit - ✔✔written statement signed before a Notary (or other authorized official) by a person who swears or affirms to the Notary that the statement is true affirmation - ✔✔spoken, solemn promise on one's personal honor, with no reference to God, that is made before a Notary in relation to an affidavit or as a notarial act in its own right attorney-in-fact - ✔✔a person, not necessarily a lawyer, who is given the authority to sign or act on behalf of another individual (principal) through a document called a power of attorney authentication - ✔✔process of proving the genuineness of the signature and seal of a Notary or other official, usually through attachment of certificate of authority; can be obtained at the Clerk of Courts office certified copy - ✔✔document verified as an accurate reproduction of an original document whose unreproduced parts are filled in on the copy by hand commission - ✔✔to authorize to perform notarial acts; written authorization to perform notarial acts is issued by a state's governor, secretary of state, or other empowering official conformed copy - ✔✔reproduction of an original document whose unreproduced parts are filled in on the copy by hand constituent - ✔✔person a notary serves is performing a notarial act - usually a document signer disqualifying interest - ✔✔an interest held by a Notary in connection with a transaction that renders him incapable of performing a notarial act as an impartial and unbiased witness journal - ✔✔a book that contains a chronological list of facts, events, or transactions jurat (affidavit) - ✔✔notarial act in which a Notary certifies having watched the signing of a document and administered an oath or affirmation in which the signer declares the document to be truthful and accurate locus sigilli (L.S.) - ✔✔Latin phrase for "the location of the seal" moral turpitude - ✔✔conduct contrary to expected standards of honesty, morality, justice or modesty, depravity notarial certificate - ✔✔wording completed, signed and sealed by a Notary that states the particulars of a notarization and appears at the end of a signed document or on a paper attached to it notarial misconduct - ✔✔Notary's violation of a law, regulation, official directive or expected standards of honesty, care or good judgment, usually in executing a notarization oath - ✔✔spoken, solemn promise to God that is made before a Notary in relation to a jurat (affidavit) or as a notarial act in its own right personal knowledge - ✔✔familiarity with an individual resulting from interactions over a period of time sufficient to eliminate every reasonable doubt that the individual has the identity claimed [Show More]

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