Separate Examination
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
See "Separate Acknowledgment."
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A notary’s questioning of a wife apart from her husband upog taking her acknowledgment.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
The interrogation of a married woman, who appears before an officer for the purpose of acknowledging a deed or other instrument, conducted by such officer in private or out of the hearing of her husband, in order to ascertain if she acts of her own will and without compulsion or constraint of the husband. Also the examination of a witness in private or apart from, and out of the hearing of, the other witnesses in the same cause.
Defined under Examination in Black's Law Dictionary.