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The record of this law\u2019s original creation isn\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2019, chapter 712<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":245587,"object_type":"law","relational_id":63572,"identifier":"55.1-629","token":"55.1\/II\/6\/5\/55.1-629","url":"\/55.1-629\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/55.1-629\/","token":"55.1\/II\/6\/5\/55.1-629","dublin_core":{"Title":"Acknowledgment taken by trustee in deed of trust","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 55.1-629","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

All certificates of acknowledgment to deeds of trust made and certified prior to March 23, 1936, by persons being trustees in such deeds shall be held and are hereby declared valid and effective in all respects if otherwise valid according to the law<\/span> then in force, and each such deed of trust that has been recorded in any clerk’s office in the Commonwealth upon such a certificate shall be held to be duly and regularly recorded if such recordation is otherwise valid according to the law<\/span> then in force.\n\t\tNothing in this section shall affect or diminish the rights or remedies of any person who intervened after the recordation of any such deed of trust but prior to March 23, 1936.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nACKNOWLEDGMENT TAKEN BY TRUSTEE IN DEED OF TRUST (\u00a7 55.1-629)\n\nAll certificates of acknowledgment to deeds of trust made and certified prior to\nMarch 23, 1936, by persons being trustees in such deeds shall be held and are\nhereby declared valid and effective in all respects if otherwise valid according\nto the law then in force, and each such deed of trust that has been recorded in\nany clerk’s office in the Commonwealth upon such a certificate shall be\nheld to be duly and regularly recorded if such recordation is otherwise valid\naccording to the law then in force.\n\t\tNothing in this section shall affect or diminish the rights or remedies of any\nperson who intervened after the recordation of any such deed of trust but prior\nto March 23, 1936.\n\nHISTORY: 1936, p. 371; 1940, p. 129; Michie Code 1942, \u00a7 5207b; Code 1950, \u00a7\n55-124; 2019, c. 712.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}