notaryship

English

Etymology

From notary +‎ -ship.

Noun

notaryship (countable and uncountable, plural notaryships)

1. The state of being a notary.
   • 1878, Horace: Satires, Epistles, and Ars Poetica, page 144:

     Horace had come to Rome after the battle of Philippi, and obtained, probably by purchase, out of the wreck of his fortunes, a public notaryship.

   • 2008, Raúl Marrero-Fente, Epic, Empire, and Community in the Atlantic World, →ISBN:

     All the gathered documents, copied from archives and books of the Cabildo, regarding the auction and final bid of the notaryship in 1600, along with the acts of the local authorities in 1607 confirming the claims of Silvestre de Balboa, were prepared to serve as documental evidence ina legal claims process that Balboa is obliged to initiate in order not to lose his notaryship, due to the period of time for royal confirmation having transpired.

   • 2011, Margarete Limberg, Hubert Rbsaat, Germans No More: Accounts of Jewish Everyday Life, 1933-1938, →ISBN:

     The best times had passed for the notaryship, since the Prussian ancestral estate law had been passed and new mortgages slowed to a trickle.

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