Chap. 340.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5562 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to seals and scrolls and when not required. [H B 266]

Approved March 29, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
fifty-five hundred and sixty-two of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5562. Any writing to which a natural person making it
shall affix a scroll by way of a seal, shall be of the same force as if
it were actually sealed. The impression or stamping of a corporate or
an official seal on paper or parchment alone shall be as valid as if
made on wax or other adhesive substance. And any writing to which
a natural person making it shall affix his signature, and which writing
in its body says “this deed,” or “this indenture,” or other words im-
porting a sealed instrument, or recognizes a seal, shall be of the same
force as if it were actually sealed by such person although no seal nor
scroll be attached; and any such writing heretofore admitted to record
shall be of the same effect as if made and recorded hereafter except as
to vested rights already attached contrary to such writing.