                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TAKEN BEFORE NOTARY WHO WAS APPOINTED BUT FAILED TO QUALIFY;
VESTED RIGHTS SAVED (§ 55.1-642)

All certificates of acknowledgment to deeds and other writings taken and
certified prior to July 1, 1995, by a person who was appointed as a notary
public by the Governor but who failed to qualify as provided by law shall be
held and are hereby declared valid and effective in all respects if otherwise
valid, 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 law; however, nothing in this section shall be so construed as to affect any
intervening vested rights.

HISTORY: 1956, c. 713, § 55-134.1; 1959, Ex. Sess., c. 92; 1972, c. 631; 1976,
c. 685; 1984, c. 35; 1989, c. 602; 1995, c. 48; 2019, c. 712.