We will continue to celebrate National Notary Day throughout the week with a short fun fact each day!
Some historians believe that the tradition of affixing a notary seal to documents can, in part, be traced back to King Louis XIV of France.
In 1706, he passed a law requiring all notaries in France to obtain their own notarial seal containing the royal arms and affix it to each notarial act they performed. Prior to this mandate, French notaries had to obtain the seal of the court to whose jurisdiction they were attached.