Notary and legal stamps
Marks that a document may be relied on. What a notarial stamp carries, how acceptance of an applied stamp actually varies by jurisdiction and document, and how to read a mark somebody has sent you. These pages describe common practice; the requirement always comes from the authority receiving the document.
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- Digital stamp legality 28 August 2026: The honest answer is that the stamp is rarely the thing the law is looking at. What matters is who applied it, to what, and whether that can be shown afterwards.
- Fake stamp 28 August 2026: A forged stamp almost never fails on the design. It fails on the things around the design, and those are easy to check once you know where to look.
- Notary stamp 28 August 2026: A notary stamp is one of the few stamps whose contents are prescribed rather than chosen, which makes getting the wording right the whole job.
- Lawyer digital stamps 21 August 2026: A law practice does not need one stamp, it needs six or seven. Here is what each one is for, why numbering each impression to a matter closes a real billing leak, and how to apply one from a phone without going back to the office.
- Company seal 12 August 2026: Most answers to this question pick one country and write as though it applied everywhere. The honest answer changes considerably by jurisdiction.