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§ 55-135. Deeds defectively executed by corporation.

Any deed of conveyance of real estate executed in Virginia prior to July 1, 1995, by a corporation of this Commonwealth, when the certificate of acknowledgment of such deed fails to state the representative capacity of the party signing the same for the corporation, shall be held and the same is hereby declared a valid and effective conveyance in every respect, if otherwise valid according to the law in force at the time the deed was executed, if such corporation, since making such conveyance has been dissolved or otherwise gone out of existence.

(1936, p. 328; Michie Code 1942, § 5208a; 1976, c. 685; 1984, c. 35; 1989, c. 602; 1995, c. 48.)