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A notice given by a landlord to a tenant to leave the premises within a certain period of time. Typically this notice is given to tenants who stay past the end of a lease period and the tenant is given a 30 day notice to vacate the premises. … [Read more...] about NOTICE TO VACATE

To give notice, to inform someone or a party to an action. In legal proceedings, and in respect to public matters, this word is generally, if not universally, used as importing a notice given by some person, whose duty it was to give it, in some manner prescribed, and to some person entitled to receive It, or be notified. Appeal of Potwine, 31 Conn. 384. … [Read more...] about NOTIFY

The stamp or seal that a notary public uses and appears on and certifies a document as set forth in the attestation. … [Read more...] about NOTARY SEAL

A notice required to be sent to a public body, such as a government, prior to filing a lawsuit against the organization or governmental body. For example, in order to file a tort claim against the city of New York, one must file a notice of claim to put the city on notice so the city can have employees timely investigate the circumstances surrounding the action. … [Read more...] about NOTICE OF CLAIM

In English probate practice notation is the act of making a memorandum of some special circumstance on a probate or letters of administration. Thus where a grant is made for the whole personal estate of the deceased within the United Kingdom which can only be done in the case of a person dying domiciled in England the fact of his having been so domiciled is noted on the grant. … [Read more...] about NOTATION