LOUISIANA NOTARY EXAM NEWEST 2024 ACTUAL
EXAM 180 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ASNWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+
Civil Law - ANSWER: System of law derived from Roman Law; court decisions DO NOT
establish state law; on the Legislature enacts state laws
Common Law - ANSWER: System of law derived from England; court decisions can
lead to future laws and precedents
Commission - ANSWER: an instruction, command, or duty given to a person or group
of people.
Legal Capacity - ANSWER: The ability to contract; not to be a minor and of sound
mind and body
Immovable - ANSWER: Land and its improvements thereon
Mandate - ANSWER: Transaction in which a person confers authority on another i.e.
power of attorney
Partition - ANSWER: Legal procedure to divide the co-owners' interests in real
property
Jurisdiction - ANSWER: the power to adjudicate or handle a particular kind of case
Apostille - ANSWER: an addition, a marginal note or observation
de jure Notary - ANSWER: - french for "of law"
- an official who holds his office by law & who is possessed of all lawfully necessary
qualifications for office
de facto Notary - ANSWER: commissioned notary with some violation of
qualifications that has suspended the notary's rights to perform his/her duties and
responsibilities; i.e. failure to maintain a surety bond or file annual reports for
example
Misfeasance - ANSWER: improper performance of a lawfully authorized official act
Malfeasance - ANSWER: misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official
Dereliction of Duty - ANSWER: With negligent disregard for proper performance
, Interdicts - ANSWER: persons above the age of majority who are declared by a court
to be incapable of either caring for his own person or administering his estate, or
both, although he may at times appear to have possession of his reason
Property Bond - ANSWER: a special mortgage on immovable property in the parish of
the notary's commission
Public Office - ANSWER: any state, district, parish or municipal office, elected or
appointed, or any position as member on a board or commission, elected or
appointed, when the office or position is established by the constitution or laws of
this state
Public Officer - ANSWER: any person holding a public office in this state
Ministerial - ANSWER: Acts performed by the notary as a service for a fee and not as
a governmental function
Paraphing - ANSWER: the notation on a document to mark it for identification with
another act
Ownership - ANSWER: The right that confers on a person direct immediate and
exclusive authority over a thing
Corporeal - ANSWER: things that have a body and can be touched or felt
Incorporeal - ANSWER: things that do not have a body and cannot be touched or felt
Seashore - ANSWER: the space of land over which the waters of the sea spread in the
highest tide during the winter season.
Naked ownership - ANSWER: Bundle of rights formerly called abusus, ownership is
burdened by a usufruct
Resolutory Condition - ANSWER: A condition of an obligation providing that upon the
occurrence of a particular uncertain event the obligation will come to an end
Possessor - ANSWER: Owner of the thing he possesses until the right of the true
owner is established
Quasi Possession - ANSWER: Exercising a real right, such as a servitude
Dereliction - ANSWER: land formed by water receding imperceptibly from the bank
of a river or stream; owner of land on the edge of the bank left dry owns the
dereliction.
Alluvion - ANSWER: Accretion (growth) formed successively and imperceptibly on the
bank of a river or stream, whether navigable or not
EXAM 180 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ASNWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+
Civil Law - ANSWER: System of law derived from Roman Law; court decisions DO NOT
establish state law; on the Legislature enacts state laws
Common Law - ANSWER: System of law derived from England; court decisions can
lead to future laws and precedents
Commission - ANSWER: an instruction, command, or duty given to a person or group
of people.
Legal Capacity - ANSWER: The ability to contract; not to be a minor and of sound
mind and body
Immovable - ANSWER: Land and its improvements thereon
Mandate - ANSWER: Transaction in which a person confers authority on another i.e.
power of attorney
Partition - ANSWER: Legal procedure to divide the co-owners' interests in real
property
Jurisdiction - ANSWER: the power to adjudicate or handle a particular kind of case
Apostille - ANSWER: an addition, a marginal note or observation
de jure Notary - ANSWER: - french for "of law"
- an official who holds his office by law & who is possessed of all lawfully necessary
qualifications for office
de facto Notary - ANSWER: commissioned notary with some violation of
qualifications that has suspended the notary's rights to perform his/her duties and
responsibilities; i.e. failure to maintain a surety bond or file annual reports for
example
Misfeasance - ANSWER: improper performance of a lawfully authorized official act
Malfeasance - ANSWER: misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official
Dereliction of Duty - ANSWER: With negligent disregard for proper performance
, Interdicts - ANSWER: persons above the age of majority who are declared by a court
to be incapable of either caring for his own person or administering his estate, or
both, although he may at times appear to have possession of his reason
Property Bond - ANSWER: a special mortgage on immovable property in the parish of
the notary's commission
Public Office - ANSWER: any state, district, parish or municipal office, elected or
appointed, or any position as member on a board or commission, elected or
appointed, when the office or position is established by the constitution or laws of
this state
Public Officer - ANSWER: any person holding a public office in this state
Ministerial - ANSWER: Acts performed by the notary as a service for a fee and not as
a governmental function
Paraphing - ANSWER: the notation on a document to mark it for identification with
another act
Ownership - ANSWER: The right that confers on a person direct immediate and
exclusive authority over a thing
Corporeal - ANSWER: things that have a body and can be touched or felt
Incorporeal - ANSWER: things that do not have a body and cannot be touched or felt
Seashore - ANSWER: the space of land over which the waters of the sea spread in the
highest tide during the winter season.
Naked ownership - ANSWER: Bundle of rights formerly called abusus, ownership is
burdened by a usufruct
Resolutory Condition - ANSWER: A condition of an obligation providing that upon the
occurrence of a particular uncertain event the obligation will come to an end
Possessor - ANSWER: Owner of the thing he possesses until the right of the true
owner is established
Quasi Possession - ANSWER: Exercising a real right, such as a servitude
Dereliction - ANSWER: land formed by water receding imperceptibly from the bank
of a river or stream; owner of land on the edge of the bank left dry owns the
dereliction.
Alluvion - ANSWER: Accretion (growth) formed successively and imperceptibly on the
bank of a river or stream, whether navigable or not
