Notary vs Advocate - What's the difference?
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A lawyer of noncontentious private civil law who drafts, takes, and records legal instruments for private parties, and provides legal advice, but does not appear in court on clients' behalf.
* 1985 , Morris Arnold, Unequal Laws Unto a Savage Race: European Legal Traditions in Arkansas , page 19:
* 2007 , John Howells, ?Don Merwin, Choose Mexico for Retirement , 10th edition (ISBN 0762753544), page 49:
* 2007 , John Merryman, ?Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo, The Civil Law Tradition , 3rd edition (ISBN 0804768331), page 107:
* 2008 , Alienation of Church Wealth in Mexico: Social and Economic Aspects , page 63:
(common law) A notary public, a legal practitioner who prepares, attests to, and certifies documents, witnesses affidavits, and administers oaths.
(legal, Canada, US) A lay notary public, who serves as an impartial witness to the signing of important documents, but who is not authorised to practise law.
* 1904 , The Bulletin of the Commercial Law League of America , volumes 9–18, page 29:
* 2001 , Christopher H. Pyle, Extradition, Politics, and Human Rights (ISBN 1566398231), page 33:
* 2004 , Richard J. Rolwing, My Daily Constitution , volume IV (ISBN 146280974X), page 182:
* 2007 , Barbara Holland, Hail to the Chiefs (ISBN 0517229951), page 175:
Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel.
Anyone who argues the case of another; an intercessor.
* c. 1591 , (William Shakespeare), Richard III , First Folio 1623:
A person who speaks in support of something.
* 2011 , Alix Lee, The Guardian , 9 Oct 2011:
A person who supports others to make their voices heard, or ideally for them to speak up for themselves.
(label) To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) Bishop Sanderson
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Burke)
(label) To encourage support for something.
To engage in advocacy.
As nouns the difference between notary and advocate
is that notary is a lawyer of noncontentious private civil law who drafts, takes, and records legal instruments for private parties, and provides legal advice, but does not appear in court on clients' behalf while advocate is someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel.As a verb advocate is
(label) to plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.notary
English
Noun
(notaries)- Originally an official of the medieval European ecclesiastical courts, the notary' developed into a noncontentious secular legal professional in France. In England, partly because the canon and secular laws were not on speaking terms, "the notarial system never took deep root." For one thing, an important aspect of the '''notary’s''' duties, his authority to "authenticate" documents, was of little use to the English. The whole notion of a state-sanctioned authenticator of private acts was entirely foriegn to English common law; whereas in France we see ' notaries "making" and "passing" contracts, the common law left that to the parties.
- Unlike the United States, where a notary public is often a clerk you find working in a bank or real estate office, a Mexican notary' has a higher ranking than an ordinary attorney who is not a '''notary'''. (In Mexico all ' notaries are attorneys, but not all attorneys are notaries.)
- Although advocates sometimes get involved in drafting instruments, notaries continue to do most of this work in civil law nations.
- It is not known whether any Puebla residents did go to the capital to bid for properties in their state because in such cases the purchases would have been formalized before a notary in Mexico City, [...]
- The giving of legal advice by notaries and others who are not admitted to practice law is, in its opinion, dangerous to the welfare of the community, because such persons have not demonstrated their capacity [...]
- Although signed by a notary in New York, it lacked a physical description or documentation. It could have been issued to anyone, or resold to anyone willing to change his name.
- "In 1961, there was a case Torcaso v. Watkins , in which a public notary in Maryland refused to take the oath, “so help me God,” and the court said he wasn't required to acknowledge God [although] the Maryland law said you were."
- This was completely unofficial, of course, since a notary in Vermont can only swear in people who plan to be working in Vermont, and they might as well have stayed in bed, but for a public relations ploy you couldn't beat it,
Quotations
* 1997 , Michael L. Closen, Glen-Peter Ahlers, Robert Jarvis, Notary Law & Practice: Cases & Materials , page 1: *: Indeed, in some of those other jurisdictions, only attorneys can be notaries', and, in virtually all foreign nations, ' notaries are permitted to perform services customarily thought to constitute the practice of law in the United States. * 2005 , Law Institute Journal , volume 79, page 51: *: Notaries public' in English-speaking countries where the '''notary’s''' role is taken seriously have similar functions to '''civil law notaries'''. This does not include '''notaries public''' in the US, because there (with the exception of Louisiana which has '''civil law notaries''') there is no requirement that "' notaries public " have any legal qualifications. * 2009 , Berend J. H. Crans, Ravi Nath, Aircraft repossession and enforcement: practical aspects , page 52: *: It is stressed that the function of an Aruba civil law notary' is entirely different from the function of an American '''notary public'''. For example, Aruba ' civil law notaries have obtained a special law degree and they are appointed by the Crown.Synonyms
* (notary authorised to practise non-contentious civil law) civil law notary; Latin notary; notary-at-lawDerived terms
* notarize * notarialSee also
* scrivener * tabellionExternal links
*advocate
English
Noun
(en noun)- I neuer did incense his Maiestie / Against the Duke of Clarence, but haue bin / An earnest aduocate to plead for him.
- He became a tireless advocate for the needs of adults with IMD throughout Britain and internationally.
- ''Since she started working with her advocate , she has become much more confident.