                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TAKEN BY CERTAIN JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, MAYORS, ETC (§
55.1-632)

All certificates of acknowledgment to deeds and other writings taken and
certified prior to July 1, 1995, by justices of the peace, mayors of cities or
towns, police justices, and civil and police justices who by virtue of their
offices had the powers and authority of justices of the peace, when such
justices of the peace, mayors, police justices, or civil and police justices are
designated in the certificates of acknowledgments as mayors, police justices, or
civil and police justices shall be held and are hereby declared valid and
effective in all respects if otherwise valid according to the law then in force.

HISTORY: 1920, p. 405; 1936, p. 466; Michie Code 1942, §§ 5207c, 5209b; Code
1950, § 55-126; 1976, c. 685; 1984, c. 35; 1989, c. 602; 1995, c. 48; 2019, c.
712.