                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TAKEN BY OFFICER WHO WAS SPOUSE OF GRANTEE (§ 55.1-637)

Any certificate of acknowledgment to a deed or other writings taken prior to
July 1, 1995, by a notary public or other officer duly authorized to take
acknowledgments who at the time of taking such acknowledgment was the spouse of
the grantee in the deed or other instrument shall be held and is hereby declared
valid and effective in all respects if otherwise valid according to the law then
in force. All acknowledgments of conveyances to a fiduciary taken before an
officer who is the husband or wife of such officer and who has no beneficial or
monetary interest other than possible commissions or legal fees shall be
conclusively presumed valid.

HISTORY: 1926, p. 747; Michie Code 1942, § 5209g; Code 1950, § 55-131; 1952,
c. 244; 1966, c. 137; 1972, c. 631; 1976, c. 685; 1984, c. 35; 1989, c. 602;
1995, c. 48; 2019, c. 712.