The chancellery employed several scribes and notaries who wrote down diplomas, capitularies and royal correspondence.
en.wikipedia.org The term "notary public" only refers to common-law notaries and should not be confused with civil-law notaries.
en.wikipedia.org In addition, house-agents, pawnbrokers, cashiers, notaries public and secretaries, landlords, millers, doctors, barbers, pharmacists and booksellers enter the stage.
en.wikipedia.org However, a number of areas of non-contentious private law are not monopolized by notaries so that attorneys often specialise in handling either trials, cases, advising, or non-trial matters.
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