Quote Originally Posted by David Merrill View Post
I feel like you are changing the subject. You cannot claim to be Donald Duck and have it notarized. I was talking about a notary attesting to a human man or woman signing in front of him or herself in the official capacity of a notary.

To avoid arguing about your definition of common law, I like Black's Fifth. Here in Colorado we have such standing from the Territorial Laws of 1861 as found in the State Archives:
Prove it.

The point being is that having something 'notarized' does NOT make what is written upon it automatically true without the one who created the document to verify it.