Notary vs. Rotary — What's the Difference?

A notary is a person authorised to perform acts in legal affairs, in particular witnessing signatures on documents. The form that the notarial profession takes varies with local legal systems.The Worshipful Company of Scriveners use an old English term for a notary, and are an association of notaries practising in central London since 1373.

Of, relating to, causing, or characterized by rotation, especially around an axis.

A notary public.

A part or device that rotates around an axis.

A lawyer of noncontentious private civil law who drafts, takes, and records legal instruments for private parties, and provides legal advice, but does not appear in court on his or her clients' behalf.

Chiefly New England See traffic circle.

(common law) A public notary, a legal practitioner who prepares, attests to, and certifies documents, witnesses affidavits, and administers oaths.

Capable of rotation.

A notary public, a public officer who serves as an impartial witness to the signing of important documents, but who is not authorised to practise law.

(New England, Atlantic Canada) A roundabout, traffic circle.

One who records in shorthand what is said or done; as, the notary of an ecclesiastical body.

Any of the clubs making up the international Rotary International movement for community service.

A public officer who attests or certifies deeds and other writings, or copies of them, usually under his official seal, to make them authentic, especially in foreign countries. His duties chiefly relate to instruments used in commercial transactions, such as protests of negotiable paper, ship's papers in cases of loss, damage, etc. He is generally called a notary public.

Turning, as a wheel on its axis; pertaining to, or resembling, the motion of a wheel on its axis; rotatory; as, rotary motion.

Someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions

A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island;

Electrical converter consisting of a synchronous machine that converts alternating to direct current or vice versa

Relating to or characterized by rotation;

Marked by or moving in a circle