It seems to me writing something like "Originally acknowledged before me on (former date) by Signers, who personally appeared THEN and (today's date of notarization)" gets into a lot of things that are outside my notary duties.
Deeds, including deeds of trust and mortgages, must be delivered to be effective. I theory, a person could ask me to notarize a deed, change her mind, and destroy it. Later, she could decide to sign and deliver the deed, and ask me to come and notarize again. So it would truly be a new document and a new notarization.
If I were the notary in this thread, I might have kept the PDF around, so know it's really the same text that's being acknowledged. I might know the original DOT really was delivered. But I know these things due to my actions as a signing agent, not my actions as a notary. Figuring out that it's really the same DOT falls outside my notary duties.
Until July 1, 2019, it wasn't clear if I could backdate a certificate if I was certain the signer had acknowledged the exact same document at an earlier date (say, the acknowledgement certificate got torn and enough remained for me to identify it). But now my certificate must be done contemporaneous with the signing. |
