2025 Maine Revised Statutes
TITLE 33: PROPERTY
Chapter 7: CONVEYANCE OF REAL ESTATE
Subchapter 4: VALIDATION OF DEFECTS
33 §352. Defective acknowledgments

Universal Citation:
33 ME Rev Stat § 352 (2025)
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§352. Defective acknowledgments

A record of a deed or other instrument, including a power of attorney, made for the conveyance of real property, or of any interest in real property, and recorded for at least 2 years in the registry of deeds of the county or district in which the real property is located is valid and enforceable even if:   [PL 2017, c. 196, §1 (AMD).]

1.  Acknowledgment.  The acknowledgment was incomplete or defective in any respect, no acknowledgment appears in the record of the deed, other instrument or power of attorney or no acknowledgment was taken; or  

A. [PL 2017, c. 196, §1 (RP).]

B. [PL 2017, c. 196, §1 (RP).]

C. [PL 2017, c. 196, §1 (RP).]

D. [PL 2017, c. 196, §1 (RP).]

E. [PL 2017, c. 196, §1 (RP).]

F. [PL 2017, c. 196, §1 (RP).]

G. [PL 2017, c. 196, §1 (RP).]

H. [PL 2017, c. 196, §1 (RP).]

I. [PL 2017, c. 196, §1 (RP).]

J. [PL 2017, c. 196, §1 (RP).]

K. [PL 2017, c. 196, §1 (RP).]

L. [PL 2017, c. 196, §1 (RP).]

M. [PL 2017, c. 196, §1 (RP).]

N. [PL 2017, c. 196, §1 (RP).]

O. [PL 2017, c. 196, §1 (RP).]

[PL 2017, c. 196, §1 (AMD).]

2.  Records relating to title to real property.  The records in relating to the title to real property fail to disclose the date when received for record or the records have not been signed by the register of deeds or other duly authorized recording officer for the county or district.  

[PL 2017, c. 196, §1 (AMD).]

SECTION HISTORY

PL 1971, c. 469, §1 (AMD). PL 1981, c. 181, §1 (AMD). PL 1995, c. 304, §1 (RPR). PL 2001, c. 275, §B1 (AMD). PL 2015, c. 157, §1 (AMD). PL 2017, c. 196, §1 (AMD).

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