Posted by LisaWI on 11/5/07 9:20am
Msg #219756
Question for Illinois Notaries
Had a request for a notarized signature the other day. When I arrived the young man handed me the document that he was to sign and all it had on it for the Notary part was the printed word "Notary". Nothing else. I told him it needed a notarial certificate and to make a long story short, he didnt want to pick it because he was unsure. I left telling him when he contacted the document maker to verify which notary certificate to use, to give me a call back and I would notarize his signature.
When I got home, the mother of this young man (the mother is in Illinois and the young man goes to college here) called me to try and clarify the question at hand. I told her the form could not be notarized without the proper certificate and that I could not pick which certificate to use. After explaining this, she told me, well thats not the way they do it in Illinois. I told her without the notarial certificate, it was a useless notarization. She understood and she picked the certificate to use and I returned to the son and completed the notarization.
My question to you is, are you allowed to just sign your name and stamp and that is evidence enough for the notarization? This particular document was printed by a lawyer and the lawyer was the one who printed the word "Notary" on the document.
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Reply by LisaWI on 11/5/07 12:26pm
Msg #219778
That is what I thought. It is even more clearly defined than our notary laws. Pretty black and white to me. And to make it even more so of an "oops" by this lawyer, this particular document was being used in a court of law.
And what bothers me is I have seen documents with a supposed notarial act being performed with only the signature of the notary, the venue and then the stamp. No notarial wording to be found. And this was done by someone at the Clerk of Courts. Go figure.
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