STEPHEN FINN, SD Finn

Generally speaking, a notary public in England may be described as an officer of the law appointed by the Court of Faculties whose public office and duty is to draw, attest or certify under his signature and official seal in such a manner as to render them acceptable, as proof of the matters attested by him, to the judicial or other public authorities in the country where they are to be used, whether by means of issuing a notarial certificate as to the due execution of such documents or by drawing them in the form of public instruments; to keep a protocol containing originals of all instruments which.