Terms Used In Alaska Statutes > Title 44 > Chapter 50 - Notaries Public

• acknowledgment: means a declaration by an individual before a notarial officer that the individual has signed a record for the purpose stated in the record and, if the record is signed in a representative capacity, that the individual signed the record with proper authority and signed it as the act of the individual or entity identified in the record. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
• action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• communication technology: means an electronic device or process that
  (A) allows a notary public and a remotely located individual to communicate with each other simultaneously by sight and sound. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
• electronic signature: means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a record and executed or adopted by an individual with the intent to sign the record. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• identity proofing: means a process or service by which a third person provides a notary public with a means to verify the identity of a remotely located individual by a review of personal information from public or private data sources. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
• in a representative capacity: means acting as
  (A) an authorized officer, agent, partner, trustee, or other representative for a person other than an individual. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• notarial act: means an act, whether performed with respect to a tangible or electronic record, that is identified as a notarial act under Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
• notarial officer: means a notary public or other individual authorized to perform a notarial act. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
• notary public: means a person commissioned to perform notarial acts under this chapter. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
• oath: includes affirmation or declaration. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• property: includes real and personal property. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• record: 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. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
• remotely located individual: means an individual who is not in the physical presence of a notary public who performs a notarial act under Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• sign: means , with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record, to
  (A) execute or adopt a tangible symbol. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
• signature: means a tangible symbol or an electronic signature that evidences the signing of a record. See Alaska Statutes 44.50.200
• state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• writing: includes printing. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060