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2018 Code of Virginia
Title 55 - Property and Conveyances
Chapter 6 - Recordation of Documents
Article 1. In General
- § 55-106. When and where writings admitted to record
- § 55-106.1. Recording and indexing of certain documents showing changes of names
- § 55-106.2. Presumption that writings admitted to record are in proper form
- § 55-106.3. Repealed
- § 55-106.4. Deed of real estate investment trust
- § 55-106.5. When clerk may refuse document to be recorded
- § 55-107. Power of attorney, where recorded
- § 55-108. Standards for writings to be docketed or recorded
- § 55-109. When original of writing once recorded is lost, how copy admitted to record elsewhere
- § 55-109.1. Certifications of recordation upon counterparts of certain instruments and subsequent recordation in other cities and counties
- § 55-109.2. Correcting errors in deeds, deeds of trust, and mortgages; affidavit
- § 55-110. Recordation of copy of lost deed previously recorded in what is now West Virginia
- § 55-111. Repealed
- § 55-112. Continuing in force acts establishing Torrens system
Article 2. Acknowledgments Generally
- § 55-113. Acknowledgment within the United States or its dependencies
- § 55-114. Acknowledgments outside of the United States and its dependencies
- § 55-114.1. Acknowledgments by persons subject to Uniform Code of Military Justice; validation of certain acknowledgments
- § 55-115. Acknowledgments taken before commissioned officers in military service
- § 55-116. Repealed
Article 2.1. Uniform Recognition of Acknowledgments Act
- § 55-118.1. "Notarial acts" defined; who may perform notarial acts outside Commonwealth for use in Commonwealth
- § 55-118.2. Proof of authority of person performing notarial act
- § 55-118.3. What person taking acknowledgment shall certify
- § 55-118.4. When form of certificate of acknowledgment accepted
- § 55-118.5. Meaning of "acknowledged before me."
- § 55-118.6. Statutory short forms of acknowledgment
- § 55-118.7. Application of article; article cumulative
- § 55-118.8. Uniform interpretation
- § 55-118.9. Short title
Article 3. Deeds and Acknowledgments of Corporations
- § 55-119. Deeds of corporations; how to be executed and acknowledged
- § 55-120. Acknowledgments on behalf of corporations and others
- § 55-121. Corporate acknowledgment taken before officer or stockholder
Article 4. Validating Certain Acts, Deeds and Acknowledgments
- § 55-122. Acts of notaries public, etc., who have held certain other offices
- § 55-123. Validation of acknowledgments when seal not affixed
- § 55-124. Acknowledgment taken by trustee in deed of trust
- § 55-125. Acknowledgment taken by trustee in deed of trust; later date
- § 55-125.1. Certain acknowledgments taken and certified before July 1, 1995
- § 55-126. Acknowledgments taken by certain justices of the peace, mayors, etc.
- § 55-127. Acknowledgments taken by officers after expiration of terms
- § 55-128. Acknowledgments taken by notaries in service during World War I
- § 55-129. Acknowledgments before foreign officials who failed to affix seals
- § 55-130. Acknowledgments taken by notaries in foreign countries
- § 55-131. Acknowledgments taken by officer who was husband or wife of grantee
- § 55-132. Acknowledgment when notary certifies erroneously as to expiration of commission
- § 55-132.1. Acknowledgments before officer of city or county consolidating, etc., prior to expiration date of commission
- § 55-133. Acknowledgments taken before notary whose commission has expired
- § 55-134. Acknowledgments taken before notary whose commission has expired; later date; intervening vested rights saved
- § 55-134.1. Acknowledgments taken before notary who was appointed but failed to qualify; vested rights saved
- § 55-134.2. Acknowledgments taken before a notary at large who failed to cite the jurisdiction in which the acknowledgment was taken; vested rights saved
- § 55-135. Deeds defectively executed by corporation
- § 55-136. Deeds to which corporate seal not affixed or not attested
- § 55-137. Acknowledgments of corporations taken by officers or stockholders
- § 55-137.1. Recordation certificate not signed by clerk
- § 55-137.2. Same; when clerk has died
Article 5. Decrees, United States Judgments, Etc.
- § 55-138. Recordation of decrees affecting title to land
- § 55-139. Repealed
- § 55-140. Judgments of United States courts affecting realty
- § 55-141. Decrees and orders in bankruptcy
- § 55-142. Repealed
- § 55-142.01. Certificates of commencement of case in bankruptcy
Article 6. Uniform Federal Lien Registration Act
- § 55-142.1. Where notices and certificates affecting liens to be filed
- § 55-142.2. Certification of notices and certificates
- § 55-142.3. Duties of filing officers
- § 55-142.4. Fees of filing officers other than clerk of State Corporation Commission
- § 55-142.5. Fees of clerk of State Corporation Commission
- § 55-142.6. Construction of article
- § 55-142.7. Short title
- § 55-142.8. Certificates and notices affecting liens filed on or before July 1, 1970
- § 55-142.9. No action to be brought against State Corporation Commission or its staff
Article 7. Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act
- § 55-142.10. Definitions
- § 55-142.11. Validity of electronically filed and recorded land records
- § 55-142.12. Recording of electronic documents among the land records
- § 55-142.13. Uniform standards
- § 55-142.14. Uniformity of application and construction
- § 55-142.15. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
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