                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

OFFICER OF ANOTHER STATE OR COUNTRY MAY TAKE AFFIDAVIT; AUTHENTICATION (§ 49-5)

An affidavit may also be made before any officer of any state or country
authorized by its laws to administer an oath, and shall be deemed duly
authenticated if it be subscribed by such officer and there be annexed to it a
certificate of the clerk or any other officer of a court of record of such state
or country, under an official seal, verifying the genuineness of the signature
of the first mentioned officer and his authority to administer an oath, except
that when such affidavit is made before a notary public of such other state or
country the same shall be deemed and taken to be duly authenticated if it be
subscribed by such notary with his official seal attached without being
certified to by any clerk or other officer of a court of record.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 275.