2015 Code of Virginia
Title 55 - Property and Conveyances
§ 55-134. Acknowledgments taken before notary whose commission has expired; later date; intervening vested rights saved
All certificates of acknowledgment to deeds and other writings taken and certified prior to July 1, 1995, by notaries public appointed or commissioned by the Governor, who took and certified such acknowledgments after their term of office had expired, shall be held, and the same are hereby declared, valid and effective in all respects, if otherwise valid according to the law then in force, and all such deeds and other writings which have been admitted to record in any clerk's office in the Commonwealth upon such certificates shall be held to be duly and regularly recorded, if such recordation be otherwise valid according to the law then in force; however, nothing in this section shall be so construed as to affect any intervening vested rights.
1934, p. 258; Michie Code 1942, ยง 5209j; 1952, c. 244; 1972, c. 631; 1976, c. 685; 1984, c. 35; 1989, c. 602; 1995, c. 48.
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