                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TAKEN BY OFFICERS AFTER EXPIRATION OF TERMS (§ 55.1-633)

All certificates of acknowledgment to deeds and other writings taken and
certified prior to July 1, 1995, by commissioners of deeds of states other than
the Commonwealth, appointed or commissioned by the governor of such state, and
by notaries public appointed or commissioned by the Governor of the
Commonwealth, or appointed or commissioned under the laws of any state other
than the Commonwealth, or any other officer authorized under this chapter to
take and certify acknowledgments to deeds and other writings who took and
certified such acknowledgments after their term of office had expired, shall be
held and are hereby declared valid and effective in all respects if otherwise
valid according to the law then in force or appear to be valid upon their face,
and all such deeds and other writings that have been recorded in any
clerk&#8217;s office in the Commonwealth upon such certificates shall be held to
be duly and regularly recorded if such recordation is otherwise valid according
to the law then in force.

HISTORY: 1924, p. 57; 1926, p. 102; 1928, p. 996; Michie Code 1942, § 5209d;
Code 1950, § 55-127; 1964, c. 384; 1966, c. 492; 1968, c. 4; 1972, c. 631;
1976, c. 685; 1984, c. 35; 1989, c. 602; 1995, c. 48; 2019, c. 712.