                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RECORDATION CERTIFICATE NOT SIGNED BY CLERK; WHEN CLERK HAS DIED (§ 55.1-648)

Any deed or other instrument or writing recorded before July 1, 1995, upon the
proper deed book in the clerk&#8217;s office of the circuit court of any county
or any court of record of any city, when the clerk of such court failed to sign
the certificate of recordation thereof and afterwards died, and any will or
other instrument or writing recorded before July 1, 1995, upon the proper will
book in any such clerk&#8217;s office, when such clerk failed to sign the
certificate of probate and recordation thereof and afterwards died, shall be as
valid and of the same force and effect as if such certificate of recordation or
certificate of probate and recordation had been signed by such clerk at the time
such deed, will, or other instrument or writing was so recorded.

HISTORY: 1942, p. 391; Michie Code 1942, § 3407a1; Code 1950, § 55-137.2;
1976, c. 685; 1984, c. 35; 1989, c. 602; 1995, c. 48; 2019, c. 712.