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14-8-4. Acknowledgment necessary for recording; decrees; exceptions.

Any instrument of writing, duly acknowledged and certified, may be filed and recorded. Any instrument of writing, not duly acknowledged and certified, may not be filed and recorded, nor considered of record, though so entered; provided, however, that judicial decrees or certified copies, patents, land office receipts, certified copies of foreign wills duly authenticated and instruments of writing in any manner affecting lands in the state, when these instruments have been duly executed by an authorized public officer, need not be acknowledged but may be filed and recorded; provided further, any filing or recording permitted or required under the provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code [Chapter 55 NMSA 1978] need not comply with the requirements of this section; and provided further, that instruments acknowledged on behalf of a corporation need not have the corporation's seal affixed thereto in order to be filed and recorded.