I notice that the MD notary manual says that notaries may not prepare the certificates (p. 7 q. 21). This seems like a horrible idea to me; it's much easier to prepare a correct certificate than to figure out if a certificate prepared by somebody else is lawful or not. And you certainly don't want to go around completing unlawful certificates.
Then, beginning on page 15 there are examples of acknowledgement certificates! Were page 7 and page 15 written by different people who don't talk to each other? Or maybe MD notaries can use the certificates beginning on page 15 because they didn't prepare them. Who knows?
Anyway, you will find different sample acknowledgement certificates for private individuals, persons acting in a representative capacity, and for signing on behalf of a corporation. The phrase "all purpose acknowledgement" means the same certificate can be used regardless whether a person is signing for himself, for another person, or for a corporation. So MD doesn't have an all purpose acknowledgement. |
