Notary

A notary public (also known as a notary or public notary) according to the common law realm of law is a public officer constituted by law to serve the public in a non-contentious. He was often concerned with the authentication of matter usually concerned with estates, deeds, powers-of-attorney, sometimes including foreign and international business.

Today a notary's main function is often to administer oaths and affirmations, take affidavits and statutory declarations, record witness and authenticate the execution of certain classes of documents...

"Civil-law notaries, or Latin notaries, are lawyers of noncontentious private civil law who draft, take, and record legal instruments for private parties, provide legal advice and give attendance in person, and are vested as public officers with the authentication power of the State. Unlike notaries public, their common-law counterparts, civil-law notaries are highly trained, licensed practitioners providing a full range of regulated legal services, and whereas they hold a public office, they nonetheless operate usually—but not always—in private practice and are paid on a fee-for-service basis. "<Ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_notary<Ref>

Ecclesiastical notaries (notarius ecclesiaie) in the main perfected a number of common notarial devices, namely the use of ribbons, seals, manual signs (signum), and the form of the eschatocol during this time. They also came to be called scrinarius.

Ancient "registers show that they were responsible for recording correspondence, ordinations, privileges, donations, synodal acts, and matters. rom the teachings of Christ and Moses this was related to the Patrimony of God the father in heaven, as well as serving the people as ambassadors of Christ's appointed kingdom and other missionaries, clerics or clerks, messengers an ministers of His Church.