Subjects:

Practice & Procedure

Contents:

Origin and development of the office.

Functions, powers, duties and qualifications of notaries.

The Court Faculties.

Classes, appointment and training of notaries.

Formalities of a notarial act.

The evidentiary status of notarial acts.

Bills of exchange, promissory notes and cheques.

Powers of attorney.

Affidavits, declarations and ship protests.

Bond and debenture stock operations and share issue ballots.

Execution and proof of documents for use outside the UK.

Precedents.

Appendices.

Fully revised and updated, this well-established book remains the only text for notaries public. The new edition incorporates the procedural changes introduced by the Woolf reforms, along with developments in qualification procedure since the last edition published in 1992. The Notaries Practice Rules 2001 are also included.

• Full account of recent legislative and regulatory changes, including the new 2001 Practice Rules, Access to Justice Act 1999, 1998 Qualification Rules plus all relevant new Commonwealth and foreign legislation
• Revised chapters covering bills of exchange and other negotiable instruments, powers of attorney, oaths and affidavits and the execution of deeds and documents by individuals and bodies corporate
• Updated requirements for the authentication of documents to be used in overseas jurisdictions.