                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CERTAIN ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TAKEN AND CERTIFIED BEFORE JULY 1, 1995 (§ 55.1-631)

All certificates of acknowledgments to deeds and other writings taken and
certified prior to July 1, 1995, by commissioners of deeds of states other than
the Commonwealth, appointed or commissioned by the governor of such state, and
by notaries public appointed or commissioned by the Governor of the
Commonwealth, or appointed or commissioned under the laws of any state other
than the Commonwealth, or any other officer authorized under this chapter to
take and certify acknowledgments of deeds and other writings, that omit the
citation of the date of the deed or certificate where it is clear from the
content of the entire certificate and the instrument that has been acknowledged
that the identity of the instrument or the certificate is the same, or if it can
reasonably be inferred from the certificate of the person recording the
instrument or other writing that the certificate refers to the same instrument,
shall be held and are hereby declared valid and effective in all respects if
otherwise valid according to the law then in force, or otherwise appear valid
upon their face, 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: 1968, c. 297, § 55-125.1; 1972, c. 631; 1976, c. 685; 1984, c. 35;
1989, c. 602; 1995, c. 48; 2019, c. 712.