Posted by LindaH
on October 28, 2009, 11:58 am, in reply to "Plain language acknowledgement"
67.142.130.29
IMO too awkward and too many unnecessary words, Gerry....not plain language at all. Unless otherwise stipulated by your SOS, you could use:
STATE OF
COUNTY OF
On October 28, 2009, before me, Mary Roe, a notary public, personally appeared John Doe, who acknowledged the foregoing instrument and {optional wording: "to be his free act and deed"} provided satisfactory proof of identification.
Period.
--Previous Message--
: This is hypothetical.
:
: Since notaries in my state may use any
: wording they want for acknowledgments,
: as long as all the necessary
: information is there, I decided to try
: to write an acknowledgment in plain
: language that describes what the
: notary knows, without implying
: anything the notary doesn't know. It's
: long because it doesn't assume any
: meaning of words that lawyers know
: about but the general public doesn't.
:
: I WOULD NOT USE THIS FOR REAL, but I'd
: be interested if anyone thinks I left
: something out, or put something in
: that shouldn't be there.
:
: State of Vermont
:
: County of Rutland
:
: Today, October 28, 2009, a man using
: the name John Doe personally appeared
: before me, Mary Roe, a Vermont notary
: public. He
: presented SATISFACTORY PROOF that he
: was entitled to use the name John Doe,
: and he presented the foregoing
: instrument, which names contains the
: name John Doe, bears a signature which
: reads John Doe, and bears a
: personal seal consisting of the
: printed letters "L.S." He
: acknowledged to me that he signed the
: instrument, and adopted the printed
: letters "L.S." as his seal,
: of his own free will for the purposes
: set forth in the instrument.
:
: /s/ Mary Roe
:
:
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