CHAPTER 297

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
55-125.1, so as to validate certain acknowledgments of deeds and
other writings taken.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
55-125.1, as follows:

§ 55-125.1. All certificates of acknowledgments to deeds and other
writings, taken and certified prior to January one, nineteen hundred sixty-
eight, by commissioners of deeds of states other than Virginia, appointed
or commissioned 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 acknowl-
edgments of deeds and other writings, which omit the citation of the
date of the deed or certificate where it is clear from the content of the
entire certificate and the instrument which has been acknowledged that
the identity of the instrument or the certificate is the same, or if it can
reasonably be inferred from the certificate of the person recording the
instrument or other writing that the certificate refers to the same in-
strument, shall be held and the same hereby declared valid and effective
in all respects, if otherwise valid according to the law then in force, or
otherwise appear 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 recorded
if such recordation be otherwise valid according to the law then in force.