LOUISIANA NOTARY ALL SET QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔appurtenances - ✔✔a right, privilege or property that is considered incident to the
principal property for purposes such as passage of title, conveyance, or inheritance; a
thing that is necessarily connected with the use and enjoyment of another thing
✔✔ascendant - ✔✔one who precedes in lineage; an ancestor
✔✔assignment - ✔✔the transfer of a claim, right, interest, or property from one to
another; the instrument by which the transfer is affected
✔✔assumption deed - ✔✔an act of sale in which the buyer agrees to assume payment
of the seller's mortgage
✔✔attest - ✔✔to witness something
✔✔attorney in fact - ✔✔same as an agent
✔✔authentic act - ✔✔a writing executed before a notary public or other officer
authorized to perform that function, in the presence of two witnesses, and signed by
each party who executed it, by each witness, and by each notary public before whom it
was executed
✔✔base line - ✔✔east-west reference line
✔✔bequest - ✔✔a disposition of property made by a testator
✔✔bill of sale - ✔✔instrument translative of title of movable property
✔✔bond - ✔✔a guarantee of indemnity by any person, usually an insurance company;
or giving security for another
,✔✔bond, personal surety - ✔✔a surety bond provided by an individual, personally, on
behalf of a notary.
✔✔bond-for-deed contract - ✔✔contract regarding immobavle property whereby the
vendor agrees to transfer the title to the property when the purchase price is paid in full;
the vendee is usually given possession during the existence of the contract
✔✔boundary line - ✔✔line of separation between contiguous lands
✔✔cancellation of mortgage - ✔✔clerk of court adjusts the public records to reflect that
the mortgage has been extinguished. collateral mortgages are cancelled by the
presentment of the paid collateral mortgage note.
✔✔capacity - ✔✔legal qualification, including age and other factors
✔✔cash deed - ✔✔common-law term for an act of sale of immovable property in which
the buyer pays and the seller acknowledges receipt of the purchase price
✔✔chattel - ✔✔designates movable property
✔✔code - ✔✔a collection of laws
✔✔codicil - ✔✔common law term. amendment, modification, supplement or addition to
a will that must be in the form of a testament
✔✔collateral - ✔✔property in which a security interest is granted
✔✔collateral mortgage - ✔✔a mortgage designed to secure a mortgage note pledged
as collateral security for a debt. both a mortgage and a pledge
✔✔collaterals - ✔✔any relation not directly in the line of ascent or descent
✔✔collation - ✔✔the supposed or real return to the mass of succession property given
to forced heirs by donations inter vivos in order to divide the property with the other
effects of the succession
✔✔equalization of property amongst forced heirs" - ✔✔
✔✔common things - ✔✔things that may not be owned by anyone (high seas, air)
✔✔community property - ✔✔a matrimonial regime whereby property acquired or
produced through the labor of either spouse is owned in common by the husband and
wife
, ✔✔component parts of tracts of land - ✔✔building, other constructions permanently
attached to the ground, standing timber and unharvested crops or ungathered fruits of
trees are component parts of a tract of land when they belong to the owner of the
ground
✔✔conditional obligation - ✔✔an obligation that is dependent on the occurrence of an
uncertain event
✔✔confession of judgment - ✔✔a person's agreement in a mortgage to the entry of
judgment if he defaults on the obligation secured by the mortgage
✔✔confusion - ✔✔when the qualities of the obligee and obligor are united in the same
person, the obligation is extinguished by confusion.
✔✔consideration - ✔✔a common law term which refers to something promised, given,
or done (such as money) that has the effect of making an agreement a legally
enforceable contract
✔✔conveyance records - ✔✔the record of all sales and donations of immovable
property kept by the clerk of court of each parish
✔✔corporation - ✔✔a business entity with separate legal personality from its
shareholders, directors, officers formed by filing articles of incorporation with the
secretary of state
✔✔corporeals - ✔✔things that have body, can be felt
✔✔counter letter - ✔✔separate writing expressing the true intent of the parties rather
than the intent purported to be manifested in another instrument; not binding on third
parties unless recorded
✔✔credit deed - ✔✔common-law term an act of sale of immovable property on credit
terms
✔✔cum onere - ✔✔when the vendee purchases immovable property on which there is
an existing mortgage, and the vendee does not assume the indebtedness secured by
the mortgage or agree to pay the indebtedness of his vendor; "with burden"
✔✔curator - ✔✔a court-appointed guardian who manages the affairs of another
incapable of doing so himself
✔✔dation en paiement - ✔✔an act in which a debtor transfers ownership of a thing to
his creditor in payment of a debt; giving in payment""
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔appurtenances - ✔✔a right, privilege or property that is considered incident to the
principal property for purposes such as passage of title, conveyance, or inheritance; a
thing that is necessarily connected with the use and enjoyment of another thing
✔✔ascendant - ✔✔one who precedes in lineage; an ancestor
✔✔assignment - ✔✔the transfer of a claim, right, interest, or property from one to
another; the instrument by which the transfer is affected
✔✔assumption deed - ✔✔an act of sale in which the buyer agrees to assume payment
of the seller's mortgage
✔✔attest - ✔✔to witness something
✔✔attorney in fact - ✔✔same as an agent
✔✔authentic act - ✔✔a writing executed before a notary public or other officer
authorized to perform that function, in the presence of two witnesses, and signed by
each party who executed it, by each witness, and by each notary public before whom it
was executed
✔✔base line - ✔✔east-west reference line
✔✔bequest - ✔✔a disposition of property made by a testator
✔✔bill of sale - ✔✔instrument translative of title of movable property
✔✔bond - ✔✔a guarantee of indemnity by any person, usually an insurance company;
or giving security for another
,✔✔bond, personal surety - ✔✔a surety bond provided by an individual, personally, on
behalf of a notary.
✔✔bond-for-deed contract - ✔✔contract regarding immobavle property whereby the
vendor agrees to transfer the title to the property when the purchase price is paid in full;
the vendee is usually given possession during the existence of the contract
✔✔boundary line - ✔✔line of separation between contiguous lands
✔✔cancellation of mortgage - ✔✔clerk of court adjusts the public records to reflect that
the mortgage has been extinguished. collateral mortgages are cancelled by the
presentment of the paid collateral mortgage note.
✔✔capacity - ✔✔legal qualification, including age and other factors
✔✔cash deed - ✔✔common-law term for an act of sale of immovable property in which
the buyer pays and the seller acknowledges receipt of the purchase price
✔✔chattel - ✔✔designates movable property
✔✔code - ✔✔a collection of laws
✔✔codicil - ✔✔common law term. amendment, modification, supplement or addition to
a will that must be in the form of a testament
✔✔collateral - ✔✔property in which a security interest is granted
✔✔collateral mortgage - ✔✔a mortgage designed to secure a mortgage note pledged
as collateral security for a debt. both a mortgage and a pledge
✔✔collaterals - ✔✔any relation not directly in the line of ascent or descent
✔✔collation - ✔✔the supposed or real return to the mass of succession property given
to forced heirs by donations inter vivos in order to divide the property with the other
effects of the succession
✔✔equalization of property amongst forced heirs" - ✔✔
✔✔common things - ✔✔things that may not be owned by anyone (high seas, air)
✔✔community property - ✔✔a matrimonial regime whereby property acquired or
produced through the labor of either spouse is owned in common by the husband and
wife
, ✔✔component parts of tracts of land - ✔✔building, other constructions permanently
attached to the ground, standing timber and unharvested crops or ungathered fruits of
trees are component parts of a tract of land when they belong to the owner of the
ground
✔✔conditional obligation - ✔✔an obligation that is dependent on the occurrence of an
uncertain event
✔✔confession of judgment - ✔✔a person's agreement in a mortgage to the entry of
judgment if he defaults on the obligation secured by the mortgage
✔✔confusion - ✔✔when the qualities of the obligee and obligor are united in the same
person, the obligation is extinguished by confusion.
✔✔consideration - ✔✔a common law term which refers to something promised, given,
or done (such as money) that has the effect of making an agreement a legally
enforceable contract
✔✔conveyance records - ✔✔the record of all sales and donations of immovable
property kept by the clerk of court of each parish
✔✔corporation - ✔✔a business entity with separate legal personality from its
shareholders, directors, officers formed by filing articles of incorporation with the
secretary of state
✔✔corporeals - ✔✔things that have body, can be felt
✔✔counter letter - ✔✔separate writing expressing the true intent of the parties rather
than the intent purported to be manifested in another instrument; not binding on third
parties unless recorded
✔✔credit deed - ✔✔common-law term an act of sale of immovable property on credit
terms
✔✔cum onere - ✔✔when the vendee purchases immovable property on which there is
an existing mortgage, and the vendee does not assume the indebtedness secured by
the mortgage or agree to pay the indebtedness of his vendor; "with burden"
✔✔curator - ✔✔a court-appointed guardian who manages the affairs of another
incapable of doing so himself
✔✔dation en paiement - ✔✔an act in which a debtor transfers ownership of a thing to
his creditor in payment of a debt; giving in payment""
