A service seal is a symbol of an office, by which documents are obligatory marked.

While service seals only served first for it, documents as Konvolut to hold together ("„seal "“), it served later also than confirmation for a statement and particularly for the authenticity of a document. Service seals were initially provided also with trained

Service seals always illustrate a symbol - mostly national emblems -:

Federal authorities lead the federal eagle, Land authorities lead their Landeswappen (e.g. notaries), local authorities their local coats of arms, office churches lead their church coats of arms. Besides also in the private sector civil coats of arms are used more rarely.

Service seals have a very long history. They were used first in the antique one by prevailing and in the course of the time by the office churches, to itself (additionally) their own authority apparatus crystallized out. On many notes of the world service seals are as a sign their (and thus validity as currencies); the euro carries however no service seal, but the European flag. Nearly each official document with external effect (correspondences, documents of identification, certificates, documents, treaty systems etc.) contains a service seal.

The service seals state something in some cases also over the condition of a possession conveyance, the correctness of a conveyance, e.g. the paper seal of the police or the pledge seal.

With some multilateral (notarial) documents or treaty systems the service seal serves also to interconnect a structure from several sides durably (with it abuse is prevented). Here the left upper corner of all sheets of a Gehefts is varied and umgeknickt and sealed on the back. Many answers carry (digitized) a service seal.

The probably most well-known service seal is the pledge seal - colloquially "„Kuckuck "“mentioned - (after the eagle shown in Prussia on it, which is verballhornt as a Kuckuck). A further well-known sealing is the control mark with tobacco goods with the federal eagle. These examples show the function of a service seal as catch.

Remarks

There are in principle five different forms of service seals:

• Disk casting as
  • as stamp mark with color (printed by hand or also)
  • as colorless coinage (embossing seal)
  • in wax (diplomacy, important treaty systems)
• Sticker (with many being, so that it can be used only once)
• Intarsien in the paper, mostly in form of a hologram or a Kinegramms (e.g. German residence titles); historically also metal caps

Most service seals are stamp marks. Coined/shaped service seals are however only with particularly important documents usually, e.g. treaty systems in the diplomacy, appointment and charters or notarial authentication.

Service seals in stamp form - which have by the way mostly a metallic plate - are partially in two different sizes existent: As "„small "“or as "„large "“service seal. The small service seals are usually attached on documents of identification, while the large for other purposes are used.

Criminal offences

Damaging, replacement or unrecognizable making of a service seal are posed as breaking of seals after "§ 136 StGB under punishment. The abusive use can represent a passing of the falsification of documents after "§ 267 StGB as well as an usurpation after "§ 132 StGB. The Kfz characteristic and the seal (as a sign for the permission of the vehicle to the public traffic) represent one "„compound document "“. Who attaches thus the seal on another characteristic, do-uniformly also a falsification of documents can commit (see characteristic abuse).

See also

• Bull (seal)
• Heraldry

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