                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ACKNOWLEDGMENT WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR ITS DEPENDENCIES (§ 55.1-612)

A circuit court of any county or city, or the clerk of any such court, shall
record any writing as is described in § 55.1-600 as to any person whose name is
signed to such writing, except that acknowledgment of contracts for the sale of
real property shall require the seller or grantor of such real property to
acknowledge his signature as provided in this section, except for contracts
recorded after the death of the seller pursuant to § 64.2-523.

1. Upon the certificate of such clerk or his deputy, a notary public, a
commissioner in chancery, or a clerk of any court of record within the United
States or in Puerto Rico or any territory or other dependency or possession of
the United States that such writing had been acknowledged before him by such
person. Such certificate shall be written upon or attached to such writing and
shall be substantially to the following effect:
			I, ________, clerk (or deputy clerk or a commissioner in chancery) of the
________ court, (or a notary public) for the county (or city) aforesaid, in the
state (or territory or district) of ________, do certify that E.F., or E.F. and
G.H., and so forth, whose name (or names) is (or are) signed to the writing
above (or hereto attached) bearing date on the ______ day of ____, has (or have)
acknowledged the same before me in my county (or city) aforesaid.
			Given under my hand this ______ day of ____.

2. Upon the certificate of acknowledgment of such person before any commissioner
appointed by the Governor, within the United States, so written or attached,
substantially to the following effect:
			State (or territory or district) of ________:
			I, __________, a commissioner appointed by the Governor of the Commonwealth
of Virginia, for such state (or territory or district) of ________, do certify
that E.F. (or E.F. and G.H., and so forth) whose name (or names) is (or are)
signed to the writing above (or hereto attached) bearing date on the ______ day
of ____ has (or have) acknowledged the same before me in my state (or territory
or district) aforesaid.
			Given under my hand this ______ day of ____.

3. Or upon the certificate of such clerk or his deputy, a notary public, a
commissioner in chancery, or a clerk of any court of record within the United
States or in Puerto Rico or any territory or other possession or dependency of
the United States, or of a commissioner appointed by the Governor, within the
United States, that such writing was proved as to such person, before him, by
two subscribing witnesses thereto. Such certificate shall be written upon or
attached to such writing and shall be substantially to the following effect:
			State (or territory or district) of  ________; county (or city) of  ________:
I, ________, clerk (or deputy clerk or a commissioner in chancery) of the 
________ court, (or a notary public) for the county (or city) aforesaid, in the
state (or territory or district) of  ________ (or a commissioner appointed by
the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia for such state (or territory or
district) of ________), do certify that the execution of the writing above (or
hereto attached) bearing date on the ______ day of ____, by A.B. (or A.B. and
C.D., and so forth), whose name (or names) is (or are) signed thereto, was
proved before me in my county (or city or state, territory, or district)
aforesaid, by the evidence on oath of E.F. and G.H., subscribing witnesses to
such writing.
			Given under my hand this ______ day of ____.
			When authority is given in &#xA7; 55.1-600 or in this section to the clerk of
a court in or outside of the Commonwealth, but within the United States, such
authority may be exercised by his duly qualified deputy.

HISTORY: Code 1919, §§ 5205, 5207; 1922, p. 868; 1924, p. 474; Code 1950, §
55-113; 1968, c. 639; 1972, c. 130; 2019, c. 712.