2024 Code of Alabama
Title 35 - Property.
Chapter 4 - Conveyances and Creation of Estates.
Article 2 - Execution, Attestation, and Acknowledgment.
Section 35-4-29 - Form of Acknowledgment.

Section 35-4-29

Form of Acknowledgment.

The following are substantially the forms of acknowledgment to be used in this state, on conveyances and instruments of every description admitted to record:

ACKNOWLEDGMENT FOR INDIVIDUAL

The State of ________}

____________County}

I (name and style of officer) hereby certify that ______ whose name is signed to the foregoing conveyance, and who is known to me, acknowledged before me on this day that, being informed of the contents of the conveyance, he executed the same voluntarily on the day the same bears date. Given under my hand this _____ day of _____, A. D. 20__.

	A. B. Judge, etc. (or as the case may be)

ACKNOWLEDGMENT FOR CORPORATION

The State of ________}

____________County}

I, _____, a ______ in and for said County in said State, hereby certify that _____ whose name as _____ of the _____, a corporation, is signed to the foregoing conveyance and who is known to me, acknowledged before me on this day that, being informed of the contents of the conveyance, he, as such officer and with full authority, executed the same voluntarily for and as the act of said corporation.

Given under my hand this the _____ day of _____, 20__
	_________
	(Style of Officer)

ACKNOWLEDGMENT FOR AN OFFICIAL OR OTHER PERSON IN REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY

The State of ________}

____________County}

I, _____, a _____, in and for said County in said State, hereby certify that _____, whose name as _____ (here state representative capacity) is signed to the foregoing conveyance and who is known to me, acknowledged before me on this day that, being informed of the contents of the conveyance, he, in his capacity as such ______, executed the same voluntarily on the day the same bears date.

Given under my hand this the _____ day of _____, 20__
	_________
	(Style of Officer)

ACKNOWLEDGMENT FOR CORPORATION, IN REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY

The State of ________}

____________County}

I, _____, a _____ in and for said County, in said State, hereby certify that _____ whose name as _____ of _____, a corporation as _____ of the estate of _____ (or as the case may be) is signed to the foregoing _____, and who is known to me, acknowledged before me on this day, that being informed of the contents of said _____, he, as such officer, and with full authority, executed the same voluntarily for and as the act of said corporation, acting in its capacity as _____ as aforesaid.

Given under my hand this the _____ day of _____, 20__
	_________
	(Style of Officer)

(Code 1852, §1279; Code 1867, §1548; Code 1876, §2158; Code 1886, §1802; Code 1896, §996; Code 1907, §3361; Code 1923, §6845; Code 1940, T. 47, §30; Acts 1951, No. 85, p. 301.)