49-1504 Terms, defined. - Nebraska Statutes

49-1504. Terms, defined.As used in the Nebraska Short Form Act, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) Acknowledgment shall mean an act or procedure by or for a described or designated person comporting with the expression, acknowledged before me, as defined in section 64-205;(2) Document shall mean any statutory short form prescribed by the act or any other printed, typed, written, or otherwise prepared or produced form or instrument;(3) Execution shall mean an act or procedure by or for a described or designated person by which a document is signed (a) by an individual while competent in a described or indicated personal capacity as such person by means of the regularly used autographic signature made by such individual or by means of the regularly adopted and used personal signatory mark affixed by or at the express direction of such individual or (b) by each of one or more individuals while competent in a described or indicated and lawfully authorized or empowered representative capacity or capacities on behalf of such person by means of the regularly used autographic signature made by any or each of such individuals, by means of the regularly adopted and used personal signatory mark affixed by or at the express direction of any or each of such individuals, or by means of some combination thereof for all of such individuals collectively;(4) Full expression shall mean any stipulated expanded or otherwise lengthened formulation of words inclusive, if so stipulated, of a similarly expanded formulation of each of all other short form expressions included in such lengthened formulation specified by the act and required by the act to be construed and interpreted as equivalent in content and substance to a particular short form expression or combination of short form expressions;(5) Short form expression shall mean any particular contracted or otherwise shortened formulation of words specified by the act and required by the act to be construed and interpreted as equivalent in content and substance to and further to be effectuated in a manner identical to the effectuation of a stipulated full expression;(6) Statutory short form shall mean any particular contracted or otherwise shortened form specified by the act as equivalent in operation to a stipulated form; and(7) Verification shall mean an act or procedure by or for a described or designated person congruent with and similar to that of acknowledgment by which the individual verifying appears before the person taking the verification and, being duly put on affirmation or oath, affirms or swears in a personal or representative capacity to the truth of described or specified factual assertions or statements at least to the best of the belief, information, and knowledge of such individual in such capacity. SourceLaws 1988, LB 475, § 4.