notary public

English Thesaurus

1. someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions (noun.person)

hypernym	:	functionary, official,
definition	:	a worker who holds or is invested with an office (noun.person)

domain category	:	jurisprudence, law,
definition	:	the collection of rules imposed by authority (noun.group)

derivation	:	notarise, notarize,
definition	:	authenticate as a notary (verb.communication)

derivation	:	notarise, notarize,
definition	:	authenticate as a notary (verb.communication)