NEVADA NOTARY CORE EXAM MANUAL 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔consideration - ✔✔anything of value given to induce entering into a contract; it may
be money, personal services, or even love and affection.
✔✔Contempt of Court - ✔✔behavior disrespectful to a authority of court, which disrupts
the execution of court orders.
✔✔contract - ✔✔an agreement between competent parties to do or not to do certain
things for a legal consideration. whereby each party acquires a right to what the other
possesses.
✔✔conveyance (deed) - ✔✔every instrument, in writing, except a will, by which any
estate or interest in real property is created, transferred, assigned or surrendered.
✔✔Conveyance of Real Property - ✔✔must be in English or have a translation to
English attached to it and the translations must be either signed and acknowledge by
the author or proved by a subscribing witness or someone designated for that purpose
by the county judge.
✔✔county law - ✔✔stipulates that each county clerk must designate at least one staff
member to serve as a Notary Public
✔✔deponent - ✔✔one who makes an oath to a written statement. Technically, a person
subscribing a deposition but used interchangeably with "affiant."
✔✔deposition - ✔✔testimony of a witness taken out of court or other hearing
proceeding, under oath or by affirmation, before a notary public or other person, officer
or commissioner before whom such testimony is authorized by law to be taken, which is
intended to be used at the trial or hearing.
✔✔duress - ✔✔unlawful constraint exercised upon a person whereby he is forced to do
some act against his will
✔✔escrow - ✔✔the placing of an instrument in the hands of a person as a depository
who on the happening of a designated event, is to deliver the instrument to a third
person. This agreement, once established, should be analterable.
✔✔ex parte - ✔✔a hearing or examination in the presence of, or on papers filed by, one
party and in the absence of the other.
✔✔executing an instrument - ✔✔legal term that means signing a document.
, ✔✔executer - ✔✔one named in a will to carry out the provisions of the will.
✔✔Fees a Notary must pay - ✔✔$60.00 - Appointment as Notary Public
$10.00- Change of name or address, Duplicate identification card or filing certificate of
official Character
$5.00- issuance of certificate of official Character
$3.00- Authentication certificate
✔✔Felony - ✔✔a crime punishable by death or imprisonment in a state prison
✔✔Foreign language advertisement disclaimer - ✔✔"I am not an attorney licensed to
practice law and may not give legal advice about immagration or any other legal matter
or accept fees for legal advice."
✔✔guardian - ✔✔a person who is in charge of a minor's person or property
✔✔judgement - ✔✔decree of a court declaring that one individual is indebted to another
and fixing the amount of such indebtedness.
✔✔jurat - ✔✔the section of an affidavit where the officer (Notary Public) certifies that it
was sworn to him or her. An Affidavit's certificate.
✔✔jurisdiction - ✔✔area co-extensive with the boundaries of the state.
✔✔larches - ✔✔the delay or negligence in asserting one's legal rights.
✔✔lease - ✔✔a contract whereby, for a consideration, usually termed rent, one who is
entitled to the possession of real property transfers such right to another for life, for a
term of years or at a will.
✔✔Lessee - ✔✔Individual that rents a safety Box
✔✔Lessor - ✔✔Entity who rents out a safety Box
✔✔Litigation - ✔✔The act of carrying on a lawsuit
✔✔Misdemeanor - ✔✔Any crime other than a felony
✔✔Mortgage on real property - ✔✔An instrument in writing, duly executed and delivered
that creates a lien upon real estate as security for the payment of a specified debt,
which is usually in the form of a bond.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔consideration - ✔✔anything of value given to induce entering into a contract; it may
be money, personal services, or even love and affection.
✔✔Contempt of Court - ✔✔behavior disrespectful to a authority of court, which disrupts
the execution of court orders.
✔✔contract - ✔✔an agreement between competent parties to do or not to do certain
things for a legal consideration. whereby each party acquires a right to what the other
possesses.
✔✔conveyance (deed) - ✔✔every instrument, in writing, except a will, by which any
estate or interest in real property is created, transferred, assigned or surrendered.
✔✔Conveyance of Real Property - ✔✔must be in English or have a translation to
English attached to it and the translations must be either signed and acknowledge by
the author or proved by a subscribing witness or someone designated for that purpose
by the county judge.
✔✔county law - ✔✔stipulates that each county clerk must designate at least one staff
member to serve as a Notary Public
✔✔deponent - ✔✔one who makes an oath to a written statement. Technically, a person
subscribing a deposition but used interchangeably with "affiant."
✔✔deposition - ✔✔testimony of a witness taken out of court or other hearing
proceeding, under oath or by affirmation, before a notary public or other person, officer
or commissioner before whom such testimony is authorized by law to be taken, which is
intended to be used at the trial or hearing.
✔✔duress - ✔✔unlawful constraint exercised upon a person whereby he is forced to do
some act against his will
✔✔escrow - ✔✔the placing of an instrument in the hands of a person as a depository
who on the happening of a designated event, is to deliver the instrument to a third
person. This agreement, once established, should be analterable.
✔✔ex parte - ✔✔a hearing or examination in the presence of, or on papers filed by, one
party and in the absence of the other.
✔✔executing an instrument - ✔✔legal term that means signing a document.
, ✔✔executer - ✔✔one named in a will to carry out the provisions of the will.
✔✔Fees a Notary must pay - ✔✔$60.00 - Appointment as Notary Public
$10.00- Change of name or address, Duplicate identification card or filing certificate of
official Character
$5.00- issuance of certificate of official Character
$3.00- Authentication certificate
✔✔Felony - ✔✔a crime punishable by death or imprisonment in a state prison
✔✔Foreign language advertisement disclaimer - ✔✔"I am not an attorney licensed to
practice law and may not give legal advice about immagration or any other legal matter
or accept fees for legal advice."
✔✔guardian - ✔✔a person who is in charge of a minor's person or property
✔✔judgement - ✔✔decree of a court declaring that one individual is indebted to another
and fixing the amount of such indebtedness.
✔✔jurat - ✔✔the section of an affidavit where the officer (Notary Public) certifies that it
was sworn to him or her. An Affidavit's certificate.
✔✔jurisdiction - ✔✔area co-extensive with the boundaries of the state.
✔✔larches - ✔✔the delay or negligence in asserting one's legal rights.
✔✔lease - ✔✔a contract whereby, for a consideration, usually termed rent, one who is
entitled to the possession of real property transfers such right to another for life, for a
term of years or at a will.
✔✔Lessee - ✔✔Individual that rents a safety Box
✔✔Lessor - ✔✔Entity who rents out a safety Box
✔✔Litigation - ✔✔The act of carrying on a lawsuit
✔✔Misdemeanor - ✔✔Any crime other than a felony
✔✔Mortgage on real property - ✔✔An instrument in writing, duly executed and delivered
that creates a lien upon real estate as security for the payment of a specified debt,
which is usually in the form of a bond.
