                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RECORDATION CERTIFICATE NOT SIGNED BY CLERK (§ 55.1-647)

A. All deeds, orders of probate, fiduciary accounts, and all other papers and
writings received prior to July 1, 1995, by any clerk of any court of the
Commonwealth and transcribed, or purported to be transcribed, in the proper book
in such clerk&#8217;s office provided by law for the transcribing and
recordation of such deeds, orders of probate, fiduciary accounts, or other
papers and writings, the certificate of receipt and of recordation of which had
not received the attesting signature of such clerk on the date aforesaid, and
which had not on such date been verified as required by law, shall prima facie
be, and be deemed to be, as truly received, recorded, and verified as if the
same had been so attested by the signature of such clerk.

B. Every clerk of any court of the Commonwealth in whose office any such deed,
order of probate, fiduciary account, or other paper or writing as is mentioned
in subsection A has been transcribed upon the proper book in such office,
provided by law therefor, and which transcription has not received the attesting
signature of the clerk who recorded the same, upon production before such clerk
of the original of such deed, order of probate, fiduciary account, or paper or
writing shall verify the accuracy of such transcription by a careful examination
and comparison of such transcription with the original paper so recorded, and
thereupon the clerk shall attest such transcription by signing thereto the name
of the clerk who received the original paper for record and his own name as
follows:
			&#8220;Teste ________, former clerk per
			________, his successor.&#8221;

C. For such service the clerk shall receive a fee of 25 cents ($0.25), to be
paid by the person for whose benefit the service was performed, and the record,
so certified and verified, shall have the same effect as if it had been properly
certified and verified by the clerk who received the same and who should have so
certified and verified the same.

D. This section shall have a retroactive effect.

HISTORY: 1920, p. 566; Michie Code 1942, § 3407a; Code 1950, § 55-137.1; 1976,
c. 685; 1984, c. 35; 1989, c. 602; 1995, c. 48; 2013, c. 263; 2019, c. 712.