Terms Used In Missouri Laws 486.750

  • Affirmation: a notarial act, or part thereof, that is legally equivalent to an oath and in which an individual at a single time and place:

    (a) Appears in person before the notary. See Missouri Laws 486.600

  • certificate: the part of, or attachment to, a notarized document that, in the performance of the notarization, is completed by the notary, bears the notary's official signature and seal, and states the date, venue, and facts attested by the notary in the particular notarial act. See Missouri Laws 486.600
  • 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.
  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • notary: any person commissioned to perform notarial acts pursuant to this chapter. See Missouri Laws 486.600
  • Oath: a notarial act, or part thereof, that is legally equivalent to an affirmation and in which an individual at a single time and place:

    (a) Appears in person before the notary. See Missouri Laws 486.600

  • 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: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • personally knows: familiarity with an individual resulting from interactions with that individual over a period of time sufficient to dispel any reasonable uncertainty that the individual has the identity claimed. See Missouri Laws 486.600

A notary shall use a certificate in substantially the following form in notarizing the signature or mark of any person acknowledging on his or her own behalf or as a partner, corporate officer, attorney in fact, or in any other representative capacity:

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State of Missouri
County (and/or City) of _________
On this ______ day of _____ , 20 _____, before me, the undersigned notary, personally appeared ___________ (name of document signer), (personally known to me)(proved to me through identification documents, which were ________,) (proved to me on the oath or affirmation of ___________, who is personally known to me and stated to me that (he)(she) personally knows the document signer and is unaffected by the document,) (proved to me on the oath or affirmation of _______ and _______, whose identities have been proven to me through identification documents and who have stated to me that they personally know the document signer and are unaffected by the document,) to be the person whose name is signed on the preceding or attached document, and acknowledged to me that (he)(she) signed it voluntarily for its stated purpose(.)
(as partner for ______________, a partnership.)
(as _________ for __________, a corporation.)
(as attorney in fact for _______, the principal.)
(as ______ for ______, (a)(the) ___________)
_________________ (official signature and seal of notary)

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