                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ACKNOWLEDGMENT WHEN NOTARY CERTIFIES ERRONEOUSLY AS TO EXPIRATION OF COMMISSION
(§ 55.1-638)

All certificates of acknowledgment to deeds and other writings taken and
certified prior to July 1, 1995, by a notary public appointed or commissioned by
the Governor, or appointed or commissioned under the laws of any state other
than the Commonwealth, who mistakenly or by error certified that his commission
had expired at the time he made such certificate, when in fact his commission
had not at that time expired, shall be held and are hereby declared valid and
effective in all respects if otherwise valid according to the law of the
Commonwealth then in force, and the date and life of the notary&#8217;s
commission may be proved aliunde his certificate in any proceeding in which the
capacity or authority of such notary is or shall be questioned, and all such
deeds and other writings that have been recorded in any clerk&#8217;s office in
the Commonwealth upon such certificates shall be held to be duly and regularly
recorded if such recordation is otherwise valid according to the law then in
force.

HISTORY: 1928, p. 996; Michie Code 1942, § 5209h; Code 1950, § 55-132; 1976,
c. 685; 1984, c. 35; 1989, c. 602; 1995, c. 48; 2019, c. 712.