2018 Delaware Code
Title 25 - Property
CHAPTER 1. DEEDS
Subchapter II Form, Acknowledgment and Proof of Deeds and Other Legal Instruments
§ 126. Certification of acknowledgments by justices of the peace; form.
(a) Two justices of the peace, when taking or certifying an acknowledgment, shall be together; and a certificate of acknowledgment taken before them, may be according to the following form, viz:
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Be it remembered, that on the ________________ day of ________, in the year of our Lord, two thousand and ________________, personally came before me, the subscribers, two of the Justices of the Peace for ____________________ County aforesaid, ____________________ and ____________________, his wife, parties to this indenture known to us personally (or proved on the oath of ____________________), to be such, and severally acknowledged said indenture to be their act and deed respectively.
Witness our hands the day and year aforesaid.
(b) If the instrument acknowledged is not an indenture, the word "instrument" may be substituted for the word "indenture" in the form; if it is not under seal, the words "and deed" in the form shall be omitted. The certificate of acknowledgment may, in all cases, be according to the foregoing form. It may be varied in any case requiring a variance, the above form being given for general direction.
Code 1852, §§ 1619, 1620; Code 1915, § 3208; Code 1935, § 3669; 45 Del. Laws, c. 230, § 4; 25 Del. C. 1953, § 126; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.
