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- Covers the practice and procedure for notaries in England and Wales with much of relevance to other parts of the United Kingdom, Commonwealth and international jurisdictions
- Examines the functions and powers of notaries
- Covers the procedure for admission as a notary, the different classes of notary, and the training and appointment of notaries
- Looks at the formalities of a notarial act and the evidentiary status of notarial acts in both civil and common law jurisdictions
- Provides an outline of some of the leading features of the law relating to bills of exchange and other negotiable documents
- Covers areas frequently encountered by notaries in the course of their practice including powers of attorney, affidavits, declarations and ship protests, bond and debenture operations and share issue ballots
- Covers the Court of Faculties - the origins and exercise of its jurisdiction and its disciplinary powers
- Looks at and considers the rules made by the Master of the Faculties, including the Notaries Practice Rules 2001
- Contains substantially revised English language precedents for protests of bills of exchange, ship protests, notarial certificates, affidavits and statutory declarations; includes a revised and expanded set of foreign language precedents.
