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Civil law notaries can do much more than common law notaries. Often the tittle was even hereditary. No wealthy nobles but not poor either. https://en.wikipedia
by 908B64B197 6y ago
Civil law notaries can do much more than common law notaries. Often the tittle was even hereditary. No wealthy nobles but not poor either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_notary#Distinction_from_American_notaries_public https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_notary#Distinction_f...
- mcguire 6y agoTrue. But my point was that, although they were wealthy enough to get an education, they were not wealthy enough to go off and spend their lives unconcerned with in the same way that many (not all!) of the scientists of the early industrial revolution were. They instead had to have a job doing whatever they were doing or to have a wealthy or powerful patron to support them.
- 908B64B197 6y agoI didn't mean my response to be argumentative, sorry about that! It's more of an FYI to readers who never interacted with a civil law jurisdiction.