Chap. 38.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5562, as amended, of the Code
of Virginia, relating to seals and scrolls and when not required. [H B 129]

Approved February 21, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia :

1. That section fifty-five hundred sixty-two, as amended, of the
Code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 5562. Any writing to which a natural person or partner-
ship, whether general or limited, making it shall affix a scroll by way of a
seal, shall be of the same force as if it were actually sealed. The im-
pression or stamping of a corporate or an official seal on paper or parch-
ment alone shall be as valid as if made on wax or other adhesive sub-
stance. And any writing to which a natural person or partnership,
whether general or limited, making it shall afhx his signature, or their
signatures, and which writing in its body says “this deed”, or “this in-
denture”, or other words importing a sealed instrument, or recognizes
a seal, shall be of the same force as if it were actually sealed by such
person or partnership, whether general or limited, 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.