[Golden question]

Originally Posted by SingViet

According to the internet definition :

`A notary public (or notary or public notary) in the common law world is a public officer constituted by law to serve the public in non-contentious matters usually concerned with estates, deeds, powers-of-attorney, and foreign and international business. A notary's main functions are to administer oaths and affirmations, take affidavits and statutory declarations, witness and authenticate the execution of certain classes of documents, take acknowledgments of deeds and other conveyances, protest notes and bills of exchange, provide notice of foreign drafts, prepare marine or ship's protests in cases of damage, provide exemplifications and notarial copies, and perform certain other official acts depending on the jurisdiction.[1] Any such act is known as a notarization. The term notary public only refers to common-law notaries and should not be confused with civil-law notaries.'


Notarization of documents in Vietnam used to be done by the province or city's Justice Department only, but the recent few years, laws were relaxed and some law firms / lawyers are appointed Notary Public and has the power to notarise documents also. So notarisation of documents in Vietnam need not go thru Justice department only, it can now be done by appointed Lawyers too.

thanks bro singvet for your info