CHAPTER 137

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 55-125 and 55-181, as amended, of the
Code of Virginia, relating, respectively, to acknowledgments by trustee
an deed of trust and by officer who was husband or wife of grantee.

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Approved March 11, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 55-125 and 55-131, 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-*siz by
@ 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, nine-
teen hundred sixty-*siz.

§ 55-131. Any certificate of acknowledgment to a deed or other
writings prior to * June thirty, nineteen hundred * sixty-six by a notary
public or other officer duly authorized to take acknowledgments, who at
the time of taking such acknowledgment was the husband or wife of the
grantee in the deed or other instrument, shall be held, and the same is hereby
declared, valid and effective in all respects, if otherwise valid according
to the law then in force. All acknowledgments of conveyances to a fiduciary
taken before an officer, who is the husband or wife of the same and who
has no beneficial or monetary interest other than possible commissions or
legal fees shall be conclusively presumed valid.