The venue is an element which should be included in all types of notary certificates in all states. Before we move on to a discussion of the differences between these types of certificates, as well as the proper procedure to complete them, let’s begin with an overview of the completion of the notary certificate’s “venue”. There is a distinct difference between an acknowledgment and a jurat and how each certificate is commonly used by legal document preparers.
When a prospective client contacts the notary for service, the reason is usually because they need the notary to complete either an acknowledgment or a jurat attached to an important legal document. Notaries who wish to build a solid foundation in their notary expertise not only learn what to put into blanks by memorizing where certain key elements are plugged into a certificate, they actually learn the purpose and the reason why they do what they do when completing the most common and basic types of notary certificates.
