Advice:

Notarial services are not limited to Notarisation and Translation. Advice is available on all aspects of international documentation.

Anmeldung:

The notification made to a Commercial Register, mainly in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, of changes in a company’s details. These must be notarised and legalised with an Apostille.

Annexing:

Manual system of binding multi-page documents together to create tamper-proof notarisation, using eyelets, ribbons and seals.

Apostille:

Specific form of legalisation originally created by the Convention of 5th October 1961 of the Hague Conference on Private International Law. See Languages and Legalisation section for countries to which this convention applies.

Authenticity (also known as public faith):

Special status granted by civil law countries to notarial acts. Greatly improves admission of documents in evidence and now expressly recognised by the Brussels, San-Sebastian and Lugano Conventions on Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Judgements in Civil and Commercial Matters (Sec 50).