CHAPTER 244

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 55-181 and 55-184 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, validating certain acknowledgments so as to extend the appli-
cation thereof.

[H 334]

Approved March 8, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 55-131 and 55-134 of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 55-131. Any certificate of acknowledgment to a deed or other writ-
ings taken prior to * February nineteenth, nineteen hundred fifty-two, 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.

§ 55-134. All certificates of acknowledgment to deeds and other
writings taken and certified prior to * January first, nineteen hundred and
* fifty-two, by notaries public appointed or commissioned by the Governor,
who took and certified such acknowledgments 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, 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
according to the law then in force; provided, however, that nothing in this
section shall be.so construed as to affect any intervening vested rights.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from passage.