My take is that lots of people can give oaths, not just notaries. There are forms related to elections in my state where the voter administers an oath to him/herself; I've been told by an official in the Secretary of State's office this is the case. Then there are the various fraternal organizations (Masons, Elks, etc.) that give oaths to members, Civil Air Patrol, Boy Scouts, and so on. Many of these self-administered oaths will NOT subject the signer to the pains and penalties of perjury, but whether the author of the document wrote the document in a way that will do what the author desires is not my concern.
So if I can't get an answer from title, I presume the language at the beginning means the signer is administering an oath to him/herself. The certificate at the end is asking ME to take an acknowledgement.
But if the language at the beginning says something like "Having first personally appeared before the undersigned officer and been duly sworn..." that's a clear request for me to administer an oath. The certificate at the end is a clear request to take an acknowledgement. So I do both; I fill out the ack certificate and attach a jurat. |
