OHIO NOTARY PUBLIC EXAM SCRIPT 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Acknowledgement - ✔✔A formal declaration before a duly authorized officer by a
person who has executed an instrument that such execution is his act and deed.
✔✔§303. Requisites of acknowledgements - ✔✔An acknowledgement must not be
taken by any officer unless he knows or has satisfactory evidence, that the person
making it is the person described in and who executed such instrument."
✔✔Administrator - ✔✔A person appointed by the court to manage the estate of a
deceased person who left no will.
✔✔Affiant - ✔✔The person who makes and subscribes his signature to an affidavit.
✔✔Affidavit - ✔✔is a signed statement, duly sworn to, by the maker thereof, before a
notary public or other officer authorized to administer oaths.
✔✔Affirmation - ✔✔A solemn declaration made by persons who conscientiously decline
taking an oath; it is equivalent to an oath and is just as binding.
✔✔Apostile - ✔✔Department of State Authentication attached to a notarized and
county-certified document for possible international use.
✔✔Attest - ✔✔To witness the execution of a written instrument, at the request of the
person who makes it, and subscribe the same as a witness.
✔✔Attestation Clause - ✔✔That clause (e.g., at the end of a will) wherein the witnesses
certify that the instrument has been executed before them, and the manner of the
execution of the same.
✔✔Authentication (Notarial) - ✔✔A certificate subjoined by a county clerk to any
certificate of proof or acknowledgement or oath signed by a notary
✔✔Bill of Sale - ✔✔A written instrument given to pass title of personal property from
vendor to vendee.
✔✔Certified Copy - ✔✔A copy of a public record signed and certified as a true copy by
the public official having custody of the original.
✔✔Chattel - ✔✔Personal property, such as a household goods or fixtures.
, ✔✔Chattel Paper - ✔✔a writing or writings which evidence both an obligation to pay
money and a security interest in a lease or specific goods. The agreement which
creates or provides for the security interest is known as a security agreement.
✔✔Codicil - ✔✔An instrument made subsequent to a will and modifying it in some
respects.
✔✔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 of the authority of a court which
disrupts the execution of court orders
✔✔Contract - ✔✔An agreement between competent parties to do or not to do certain
things or 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.
✔✔County Clerk's Certificate - ✔✔"Authentication (Notarial)
✔✔Deponent - ✔✔one who makes oath to a written statement. Technically, a person
subscribing a deposition but used interchangeably with "Affiant."
✔✔Deposition - ✔✔The testimony of a witness taken out of court of 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 a 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 unalterable.
✔✔Executor - ✔✔One named in a will to carry out the provisions of the will
✔✔Ex Parte (From One Side Only) - ✔✔A hearing or examination in the presence of, or
on papers filed by, one party and in the absence of the other.
✔✔Felony - ✔✔A Crime punishable by death or imprisonment in a state prison.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Acknowledgement - ✔✔A formal declaration before a duly authorized officer by a
person who has executed an instrument that such execution is his act and deed.
✔✔§303. Requisites of acknowledgements - ✔✔An acknowledgement must not be
taken by any officer unless he knows or has satisfactory evidence, that the person
making it is the person described in and who executed such instrument."
✔✔Administrator - ✔✔A person appointed by the court to manage the estate of a
deceased person who left no will.
✔✔Affiant - ✔✔The person who makes and subscribes his signature to an affidavit.
✔✔Affidavit - ✔✔is a signed statement, duly sworn to, by the maker thereof, before a
notary public or other officer authorized to administer oaths.
✔✔Affirmation - ✔✔A solemn declaration made by persons who conscientiously decline
taking an oath; it is equivalent to an oath and is just as binding.
✔✔Apostile - ✔✔Department of State Authentication attached to a notarized and
county-certified document for possible international use.
✔✔Attest - ✔✔To witness the execution of a written instrument, at the request of the
person who makes it, and subscribe the same as a witness.
✔✔Attestation Clause - ✔✔That clause (e.g., at the end of a will) wherein the witnesses
certify that the instrument has been executed before them, and the manner of the
execution of the same.
✔✔Authentication (Notarial) - ✔✔A certificate subjoined by a county clerk to any
certificate of proof or acknowledgement or oath signed by a notary
✔✔Bill of Sale - ✔✔A written instrument given to pass title of personal property from
vendor to vendee.
✔✔Certified Copy - ✔✔A copy of a public record signed and certified as a true copy by
the public official having custody of the original.
✔✔Chattel - ✔✔Personal property, such as a household goods or fixtures.
, ✔✔Chattel Paper - ✔✔a writing or writings which evidence both an obligation to pay
money and a security interest in a lease or specific goods. The agreement which
creates or provides for the security interest is known as a security agreement.
✔✔Codicil - ✔✔An instrument made subsequent to a will and modifying it in some
respects.
✔✔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 of the authority of a court which
disrupts the execution of court orders
✔✔Contract - ✔✔An agreement between competent parties to do or not to do certain
things or 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.
✔✔County Clerk's Certificate - ✔✔"Authentication (Notarial)
✔✔Deponent - ✔✔one who makes oath to a written statement. Technically, a person
subscribing a deposition but used interchangeably with "Affiant."
✔✔Deposition - ✔✔The testimony of a witness taken out of court of 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 a 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 unalterable.
✔✔Executor - ✔✔One named in a will to carry out the provisions of the will
✔✔Ex Parte (From One Side Only) - ✔✔A hearing or examination in the presence of, or
on papers filed by, one party and in the absence of the other.
✔✔Felony - ✔✔A Crime punishable by death or imprisonment in a state prison.
