CHAPTER 492

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 55-125, 55-127 and 55-136, as amended,
of the Code of Virginia, relating to the validation of certain acknowl-
edgments and deeds.

(H 428]
Approved April 4, 1966

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-*siz by a
person named as trustee therein who was, at the time of taking the acknowl-
edgment, 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 accrued after the
recordation of the deed of trust and before June thirty, nineteen hundred
sixty-*six.

§ 55-127. All certificates of acknowledgment to deeds and other writ-
ings taken and certified prior to January one, nineteen hundred sixty-*siz,
by commissioners of deeds of states other than Virginia, appointed or com-
missioned 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 acknowledgments to deeds
and other writings 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 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 re-
corded if such recordation be otherwise valid according to the law then in

orce.

§ 55-186. Any deed of conveyance of real estate executed within or
without this State prior to January one, nineteen hundred sixty-*siz, 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 corpora-
tion, 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.