0 related to the work of a notary public (= a type of lawyer who has the legal authority to see that documents are correctly signed or that they are true copies):
In addition, notarial records and a relatively unusual specification of proto-industrial household incomes dating from 1711 have been used.
In other areas, notarial acts themselves demonstrate their limited character.
In fact there is a notarial provenance: see below.
Often, the deals they struck, like other legal contracts, were witnessed by notaries and recorded for posterity in the beautiful hand of notarial scribes.
Her main conclusions are based on a statistical analysis of surviving catalogues of houses (1298, 1344) and a survey of the fragmentary notarial records.
Notarial records do not offer other clues as to specific reasons for sending female family members to the convent.
Secondary sources included newspapers, interviews, notarial records, court proceedings of conciliation boards in industrial disputes and lawsuits, various documents from canning and maritime unions and, finally, municipal tax assessment registers.
The notarial archives are not only over-valued as a source, but are often presented in undigested form, making some chapters, such as 5 and 13, very unrewarding.
