I thought this was a really good question. I did a little bit of searching on this and couldn't find anything about the notary venue impacting any legal issues with the document. What DOES seem to be important is the jurisdiction for any potential legal action, but that seems to be often determined by a 'venue clause', or other factors that don't have anything to do with the notarial venue. [I should add that my search was pretty cursory.]
So I guess it makes sense for it to just determine where a notary is based or possibly has authority. In my state, at least, we can notarize anywhere in the state, but it also documents where a notary has their commission filed.
It's occurred to me, as well, that with traditional notarizations, the venue documents where the signer was physically located at the time of notarization. So, for example, if a document was forged, a signer could potentially provide proof they didn't sign it if they could show they were somewhere other than in the county stated as the venue on the document.
I was once challenged on that point by an attorney who had just lost a client. The signer was from an adjacent county to mine and had apparently told the losing attorney that he never left the city where he lived. I completed the notarization of a letter to the old attorney advising that his services were no longer needed, in the office of the winning attorney (in the same county as me), and the client - of course - WAS physically present.
As I recall, that didn't go over well with the previous guy. I'd been given a heads up that I might be contacted but to not disclose any info about the transaction/notarization to the old attorney. (That was a given.) He did manage to track me down and called me, challenging me on the accuracy of my notary certificate, since he 'knew' that his former client never left that county. I assured him that, at least on this one occasion, he certainly did... [From the way he acted, I wasn't surprised that the client decided to find a new lawyer!]
This is as close as I've ever come (to my knowledge) to having a notary venue mean something... 
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| Messages in this Thread |
|  Sunday musings...why is venue important? - Lee/AR on 2/6/22 2:38pm |
|  Can't give law/quotes...just my best opinion - Linda_H/FL on 2/6/22 3:34pm |
|  Agree... so how would foreclosure (for example) happen - Lee/AR on 2/6/22 3:42pm |
|  Re: Agree... so how would foreclosure (for example) happen - VT_Syrup on 2/6/22 4:19pm |
| Real property laws are governed by the state where - Linda_H/FL on 2/6/22 4:26pm |
|  Re: Real property laws are governed by the state where - Bear900/CA on 2/7/22 12:33pm |
| Re: Sunday musings...why is venue important? - VT_Syrup on 2/6/22 4:01pm |
| Re: Sunday musings...why is venue important? - VT_Syrup on 2/6/22 4:05pm |
| Re: Sunday musings...why is venue important? - MikeC/TX on 2/6/22 6:31pm |
| Sounds reasonable...except when it's wrong - Lee/AR on 2/6/22 7:15pm |
| Hey Attorney...why is venue important? - Signerbill on 2/7/22 12:07pm |
| VENUE is only important if it's wrong, or does not appear -  Cheryl Elliott on 2/7/22 6:15pm |
| Re: VENUE is only important if it - MikeC/TX on 2/7/22 7:09pm |
| It read like NNA, but... - NVLSlady/VA on 2/7/22 7:26pm |
| You may be thinking of the CA Ack wording... - Bear900/CA on 2/7/22 7:45pm |
| Re: It read like NNA, but... - JanetK_CA on 2/7/22 7:50pm |
|  Re: It read like NNA, but... - NVLSlady/VA on 2/8/22 9:09am |
| Re: thank you, Mike, for doing that n/m - Cheryl Elliott on 2/7/22 9:46pm |
| Re: PAW always said “venue is where your feet were planted - Carolyn Bodley on 2/7/22 6:18pm |
| Re: PAW always said “venue is where your feet were planted - Expeditor on 2/8/22 12:15pm |
 | Re: Sunday musings...why is venue important? - JanetK_CA on 2/7/22 8:40pm |
| Notary venue only important to notarization block n/m - BobbiCT on 2/8/22 9:07am |
| Oops. Notary venue only important to notarization block - BobbiCT on 2/8/22 9:41am |
| THANK YOU, BobbiCT, for your excellent explanation! n/m - Lee/AR on 2/8/22 11:25am |
| Re: THANK YOU, BobbiCT, for your excellent explanation! - Cheryl Elliott on 2/8/22 12:07pm |
| Re: Sunday musings...why is venue important? - Expeditor on 2/8/22 12:02pm |
