Posted by Hmac on 11/18/11 3:27pm
Msg #404435

Stumped!!!! on an Acknowlegement

Where it says ------------------------- (line to fill out) To Wit:

what goes in the line? My name? Borrowers Name? Nothing?

Reply by jba/fl on 11/18/11 3:39pm
Msg #404437

Need more info....more verbiage n/m

Reply by Hmac on 11/18/11 3:40pm
Msg #404438

Re: Need more info....more verbiage

It then has the standard... I, _________ notary public, blah blah blah

Reply by VT_Syrup on 11/18/11 3:41pm
Msg #404439

I've seen To Wit used either before the county or before the municipality, something like

State of Vermont To Wit
County of Chittenden

or

State of Vermont

County of Chittenden to wit Buel's Gore

Hard to say without seeing the whole page.

Reply by Hmac on 11/18/11 3:47pm
Msg #404440



Jurisdiction ---------------------------- of ----------------------

----------------------------- To Wit:

I, -------------------------, Notary Public in and for above jurisdiction, do certify that -------- borrowers names, parties to the foregoing instrument date. ..... etc etc.

Reply by Linda_H/FL on 11/18/11 3:50pm
Msg #404441

I'd just either line through and amend it to

be (in my case) FL compliant or attach a FL compliant ack or jurat...whichever is required.

My best guess? It's

"Jurisdiction: State of North Carolina, <<whatever>> County, To Wit:"

My best guess and MHO

Reply by Hmac on 11/18/11 3:58pm
Msg #404442

Re: I'd just either line through and amend it to

I think the acknowledgement was flawed to begin with. I struck through it, obviously filling out the State & County and the rest of the info. It just didn't seem like it belonged the way they had it typed.

Reply by Roger_OH on 11/18/11 4:00pm
Msg #404443

I'd say it's State of ______, then ______ County, to wit.

To wit means the same thing as the (very) old Latin term "ss" (scilicet), still seen on many venue sections of the notary certificate.

Reply by HisHughness on 11/18/11 4:59pm
Msg #404445

That is an archaic form used only in Loggeread County, West Virgina, where Wit Lesse was clerk in the 1890s. He was both egocentric and eccentric, and insisted that all documents, to be recorded, had to be addressed specifically to him (before becoming clerk, Mr. Lesse had been the business partner of Donald Trump's father). To this day, residents of Loggerhead County are unsure who owns much of the property there. The problem is so bad that it has spurred the Occupy Movement, in which protesters encamp on property they claim as theirs but cannot prove ownership because deeds were not recorded. Lesse had no children, but he adopted his wife's child by another marriage. His adopted son was later elected clerk himself, and tried, with little success, to straighten out the mess -- sometimes called the Lesse Messe -- left by his father. The adopted son is still remembered in Loggerhead County for his short stature; he was only 4'10".

People knew him as Half Wit.

Reply by JanetK_CA on 11/18/11 6:29pm
Msg #404450

LOL!!! Well done, Quick Witted! (No relation, I'm sure.) n/m

Reply by Sha/CA on 11/18/11 7:12pm
Msg #404451

But his real name was Knit, because that was his hobby! n/m

Reply by Claudine Osborne on 11/18/11 9:16pm
Msg #404459

Re: But his real name was Knit, because that was his hobby!

But was he a Dum Wit??

Reply by Yoli/CA on 11/18/11 10:29pm
Msg #404467

ROFLMAO!!!

You've out-done yourself, Hugh! Great job!