                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ON BEHALF OF CORPORATIONS AND OTHERS (§ 55.1-625)

When any writing purports to have been signed on behalf or by authority of any
person or corporation, or in any representative capacity whatsoever, the
certificate of the acknowledgment by the person so signing the writing shall be
sufficient for the purposes of this and §§ 55.1-600, 55.1-612, 55.1-613, and
55.1-615, and for the recordation of such writing as to the person or
corporation on whose behalf it is signed, or as to the representative character
of the person so signing the writing, as the case may be, without expressing
that such acknowledgment was on behalf or by authority of such other person or
corporation or was in a representative capacity. In the case of a writing signed
on behalf or by authority of any person or corporation or in any representative
capacity, a certificate to the following effect shall be sufficient:
		State (or territory or district) of ________, county (or city) of ________,:
I, ________, a ________ (here insert the official title of the person certifying
the acknowledgment) in and for the state (or territory or district) and county
(or city) aforesaid, do certify that ________ (here insert the name or names of
the persons signing the writing on behalf of the person or corporation, or the
name of the person signing the writing in a representative capacity), whose name
(or names) is (or are) signed to the writing above, 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 ____.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 5207; Code 1950, § 55-120; 2019, c. 712.