                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TAKEN BEFORE A NOTARY AT LARGE WHO FAILED TO CITE THE
JURISDICTION IN WHICH THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT WAS TAKEN; VESTED RIGHTS SAVED (§
55.1-643)

All certificates of acknowledgment to deeds and other writings taken and
certified prior to July 1, 1995, by a person who was appointed a notary public
for the Commonwealth at large by the Governor but who failed to include in such
certificates of acknowledgment the county or city in which the notarial act was
performed 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: 1984, c. 35, § 55-134.2; 1989, c. 602; 1995, c. 48; 2019, c. 712.