CHAPTER 4

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 55-125, 55-127 and 55-186, as amended,
of the Code of Virginia, relating to the validation of certain acknowl-
edgments and deeds.

[H 28]

Approved February 1, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 55-125, 55-127 and 55-136, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 55-125. Any certificate of acknowledgment of any deed of trust,
taken and certified prior to January one, nineteen hundred sixty- * eight
by a person named as trustee therein who was, at the time of taking the
acknowledgment, an officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments
of deeds, is declared to be as valid and of the same force and effect as if
such person had not been a trustee in the deed of trust; provided that this
section shall not affect any right or remedy of any third party, which ac-
crued after the recordation of the deed of trust and before June thirty,
nineteen hundred sixty- * eight. ,

§ 55-127. All certificates of acknowledgment to deeds and other writ-
ings taken and certified prior to January one, nineteen hundred sixty- *
eight by commissioners of deeds of states other than Virginia, appointed
or commissioned by the governor of such state. and by notaries public
appointed or commissioned by the Governor of Virginia, or appointed or
commissioned under the laws of any state other than this State, or any
other officer authorized under this chapter to take and certify acknowledg-
ments to deeds and other writings who took and certified such acknowl-
edgments after their term of office had expired, shall be held and the same
are hereby declared valid and effective in all respects, if otherwise valid
according to the law then in force or appear to be valid upon their face;
and all such deeds and other writings which have been admitted to record
in any clerk’s office in the State upon such certificates shall be held to be
duly and regularly recorded if such recordation be otherwise valid accord-
ing to the law then in force.

§ 55-136. Any deed of conveyance of real estate executed within or
without this State prior to January one, nineteen hundred sixty- * eight
by a corporation of this State or any other state to which deed the seal of
the corporation was not affixed, or to which the seal was affixed but was
not attested by the secretary or by some other authorized officer of the
corporation, shall be held to be valid and is hereby declared a valid and
effective conveyance in every respect, if otherwise valid according to law
in force at the time of execution thereof.