                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TAKEN BEFORE COMMISSIONED OFFICERS IN MILITARY SERVICE (§
55.1-615)

A circuit court of any county or city, or clerk of such court, shall also record
any writing as is described in § 55.1-600 as to any person whose name is signed
thereto who at the time of such acknowledgment was in active service in the
Armed Forces of the United States, or as to the consort of such person, upon the
certificate of any commissioned officer of the army, navy, marine corps, air
force, coast guard, space force, any state national guard that is federally
recognized, or other branch of the service of which such person is a member,
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:
		In the army (or navy, etc.) of the United States.
		I, ________, a commissioned officer of the army (or navy, marine corps, air
force, coast guard, space force, or other branch of service) of the United
States with the rank of lieutenant (or ensign or other appropriate rank) whose
home address is ________, 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 ____, and who, or whose consort, is a
private (corporal, seaman, captain, or other grade or rank) in the army (or
navy, etc.) of the United States, and whose home address is ________, has (or
have) acknowledged the same before me.
		Given under my hand this __ day of ____.
		Such acknowledgment may be taken at any place where the officer taking the
acknowledgment and the person whose name is signed to the writing may be. Such
commissioned officer may take the acknowledgment of any person in any branch of
the Armed Forces of the United States or the consort of such person.
		Every acknowledgment executed prior to July 1, 1995, in substantial compliance
with the provisions of this section is hereby validated, ratified, and
confirmed, notwithstanding any error or omission with respect to any address,
grade, or rank.

HISTORY: 1942, p. 426; Michie Code 1942, § 5205a; 1944, p. 25; 1948, p. 393;
Code 1950, § 55-115; 1964, c. 129; 1972, c. 458; 1995, c. 48; 2019, c. 712;
2024, c. 817.