Court Opinion

ID: 7966410
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 00:51:00.130869+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:34:39.298875
License: Public Domain

Vanderburgh, J.
The legal question presented here is whether the certificate of acknowledgment of the chattel mortgage set forth in the record is properly authenticated, and arises upon the following finding of the court: “ The mortgage is written upon one side of a sheet of paper, and is in proper form. Upon the other side of the sheet is a certificate of acknowledgment in proper form, and duly and officially signed by a notary public, but no notarial seal is impressed upon the side of said sheet on which said certificate of acknowledgment is written; but said seal is impressed upon the other side, that upon which the mortgage is written, and the impression thereof is distinctly visible through the sheet, and upon the side containing the certificate of acknowledgment, but at the opposite end of the sheet.” There is no other certificate on the paper to which the notarial seal could be made applicable. It must be referred to, and be deemed to be the authentication of, the notary’s certificate upon the same paper. The legal intendment from the record will be that the notary used his seal for such purpose in the discharge of his official duty.
Judgment affirmed.