{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-25-34-3","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 25-34-3","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 25-34-3","body":"As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases have the meanings ascribed in this section unless the context clearly requires otherwise:\n\n(a) “ Acknowledgment ” means a declaration by an individual in person before a notarial officer that the individual has signed a record for the purpose stated in the record and, if the record is signed in a representative capacity, that the individual signed the record with proper authority and signed it as the act of the individual or entity identified in the record.\n\n(b) “ Electronic ” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic or similar capabilities.\n\n(c) “ Electronic signature ” means an electronic symbol, sound or process attached to or logically associated with a record and executed or adopted by an individual with the intent to sign the record.\n\n(d) “ In a representative capacity ” means acting as:\n\n(i) An authorized officer, manager, member, agent, partner, trustee or other representative for a person other than an individual;\n\n(ii) A public officer, personal representative, guardian or other representative, in the capacity stated in a record;\n\n(iii) An agent or attorney-in-fact for a principal; or\n\n(iv) An authorized representative of another in any other capacity.\n\n(e) “ Notarial act ” means an act, whether performed with respect to a tangible or electronic record, that a notarial officer may perform under this chapter and any other law of this state.\n\n(f) “ Notarial officer ” means a notary public or other individual authorized to perform a notarial act.\n\n(g) “ Notary public ” means an individual commissioned to perform a notarial act by the Secretary of State.\n\n(h) “ Official seal ” means a physical image affixed to a tangible record or an electronic image attached to or logically associated with an electronic record.\n\n(i) “ Record ” means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.\n\n(j) “ Sign ” means, with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:\n\n(i) To execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or\n\n(ii) To attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic symbol, sound or process.\n\n(k) “ Signature ” means a tangible symbol or an electronic signature that evidences the signing of a record.\n\n(l) “ Stamping device ” means:\n\n(i) A physical device capable of affixing to a tangible record an official seal; or\n\n(ii) An electronic device or process capable of attaching to or logically associating an official seal with an electronic record.\n\n(m) “ State ” means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.\n\n(n) “ Verification on oath or affirmation ,” formerly known as a jurat, means a declaration, made by an individual on oath or affirmation before a notarial officer, that a statement in a record is true.","path":["MS Code","Title 25"],"source_url":"https://legislature.ms.gov/","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:17Z","sha256":"2ab57cb47d548a8d4b09561f67f50334c486469da4c54b90464728947756380e","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-25-34-29","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-25-34-31"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}