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Portions of this article were drafted using an in-house natural language generation platform. The article was reviewed, fact-checked and edited by our editorial staff. A notary public, also simply ...

A notary public carries a legal commission to witness signatures and, in most states, will place a notary seal on signed documents. Although most official documents do not need notarized signatures, a ...