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2019 Code of Virginia
Title 55.1 - Property and Conveyances
Chapter 6 - Recordation of Documents
Article 1. General Provisions
- § 55.1-600. (Effective October 1, 2019) When and where writings recorded
- § 55.1-601. (Effective October 1, 2019) Recording and indexing of certain documents showing changes of names
- § 55.1-602. (Effective October 1, 2019) Presumption that recorded writings are in proper form
- § 55.1-603. (Effective October 1, 2019) Deed of real estate investment trust
- § 55.1-604. (Effective October 1, 2019) When clerk may refuse document to be recorded
- § 55.1-605. (Effective October 1, 2019) Power of attorney; where recorded
- § 55.1-606. (Effective October 1, 2019) Standards for writings to be docketed or recorded
- § 55.1-607. (Effective October 1, 2019) When original of writing once recorded is lost, how copy recorded elsewhere
- § 55.1-608. (Effective October 1, 2019) Certifications of recordation upon copies of certain instruments and subsequent recordation in other county or city
- § 55.1-609. (Effective October 1, 2019) Correcting errors in deeds, deeds of trust, and mortgages; affidavit
- § 55.1-610. (Effective October 1, 2019) Recordation of copy of lost deed previously recorded in what is now West Virginia
- § 55.1-611. Repealed
Article 2. Acknowledgments Generally
- § 55.1-612. (Effective October 1, 2019) Acknowledgment within the United States or its dependencies
- § 55.1-613. (Effective October 1, 2019) Acknowledgments outside of the United States and its dependencies
- § 55.1-614. (Effective October 1, 2019) Acknowledgments by persons subject to Uniform Code of Military Justice; validation of certain acknowledgments
- § 55.1-615. (Effective October 1, 2019) Acknowledgments taken before commissioned officers in military service
Article 3. Uniform Recognition of Acknowledgments Act
- § 55.1-616. (Effective October 1, 2019) "Notarial acts" defined; who may perform notarial acts outside the Commonwealth for use in the Commonwealth
- § 55.1-617. (Effective October 1, 2019) Proof of authority of person performing notarial act
- § 55.1-618. (Effective October 1, 2019) What person taking acknowledgment shall certify
- § 55.1-619. (Effective October 1, 2019) When form of certificate of acknowledgment accepted
- § 55.1-620. (Effective October 1, 2019) Meaning of "acknowledged before me."
- § 55.1-621. (Effective October 1, 2019) Statutory short forms of acknowledgment
- § 55.1-622. (Effective October 1, 2019) Application of article; article cumulative
- § 55.1-623. (Effective October 1, 2019) Uniform interpretation
Article 4. Deeds and Acknowledgments of Corporations
- § 55.1-624. (Effective October 1, 2019) Deeds of corporations; how to be executed and acknowledged
- § 55.1-625. (Effective October 1, 2019) Acknowledgments on behalf of corporations and others
- § 55.1-626. (Effective October 1, 2019) Corporate acknowledgment taken before officer or stockholder
Article 5. Validating Certain Acts, Deeds, and Acknowledgments
- § 55.1-627. (Effective October 1, 2019) Acts of notaries public, etc., who have held certain other offices
- § 55.1-628. (Effective October 1, 2019) Validation of acknowledgments when seal not affixed
- § 55.1-629. (Effective October 1, 2019) Acknowledgment taken by trustee in deed of trust
- § 55.1-630. (Effective October 1, 2019) Acknowledgment taken by trustee in deed of trust; later date
- § 55.1-631. (Effective October 1, 2019) Certain acknowledgments taken and certified before July 1, 1995
- § 55.1-632. (Effective October 1, 2019) Acknowledgments taken by certain justices of the peace, mayors, etc.
- § 55.1-633. (Effective October 1, 2019) Acknowledgments taken by officers after expiration of terms
- § 55.1-634. (Effective October 1, 2019) Acknowledgments taken by notaries in service during World War I
- § 55.1-635. (Effective October 1, 2019) Acknowledgments before foreign officials who failed to affix seals
- § 55.1-636. (Effective October 1, 2019) Acknowledgments taken by notaries in foreign countries
- § 55.1-637. (Effective October 1, 2019) Acknowledgments taken by officer who was spouse of grantee
- § 55.1-638. (Effective October 1, 2019) Acknowledgment when notary certifies erroneously as to expiration of commission
- § 55.1-639. (Effective October 1, 2019) Acknowledgments before officer of city or county consolidating, etc., prior to expiration date of commission
- § 55.1-640. (Effective October 1, 2019) Acknowledgments taken before notary whose commission has expired
- § 55.1-641. (Effective October 1, 2019) Acknowledgments taken before notary whose commission has expired; later date; intervening vested rights saved
- § 55.1-642. (Effective October 1, 2019) Acknowledgments taken before notary who was appointed but failed to qualify; vested rights saved
- § 55.1-643. (Effective October 1, 2019) Acknowledgments taken before a notary at large who failed to cite the jurisdiction in which the acknowledgment was taken; vested rights saved
- § 55.1-644. (Effective October 1, 2019) Deeds defectively executed by corporation
- § 55.1-645. (Effective October 1, 2019) Deeds to which corporate seal not affixed or not attested
- § 55.1-646. (Effective October 1, 2019) Acknowledgments of corporations taken by officers or stockholders
- § 55.1-647. (Effective October 1, 2019) Recordation certificate not signed by clerk
- § 55.1-648. (Effective October 1, 2019) Recordation certificate not signed by clerk; when clerk has died
Article 6. United States Judgments; Bankruptcy
- § 55.1-649. (Effective October 1, 2019) Recordation of judgments affecting title to land
- § 55.1-650. (Effective October 1, 2019) Judgments of United States courts affecting realty
- § 55.1-651. (Effective October 1, 2019) Orders in bankruptcy
- § 55.1-652. (Effective October 1, 2019) Certificates of commencement of case in bankruptcy
Article 7. Uniform Federal Lien Registration Act
- § 55.1-653. (Effective October 1, 2019) Where notices and certificates affecting liens to be filed
- § 55.1-654. (Effective October 1, 2019) Certification of notices and certificates
- § 55.1-655. (Effective October 1, 2019) Duties of filing officers
- § 55.1-656. (Effective October 1, 2019) Fees of filing officers other than clerk of State Corporation Commission
- § 55.1-657. (Effective October 1, 2019) Fees of clerk of State Corporation Commission
- § 55.1-658. (Effective October 1, 2019) Construction of article
- § 55.1-659. (Effective October 1, 2019) Certificates and notices affecting liens filed on or before July 1, 1970
- § 55.1-660. (Effective October 1, 2019) No action to be brought against the State Corporation Commission or its staff
Article 8. Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act
- § 55.1-661. (Effective October 1, 2019) Definitions
- § 55.1-662. (Effective October 1, 2019) Validity of electronically filed and recorded land records
- § 55.1-663. (Effective October 1, 2019) Recording of electronic documents among the land records
- § 55.1-664. (Effective October 1, 2019) Uniform standards
- § 55.1-665. (Effective October 1, 2019) Uniformity of application and construction
- § 55.1-666. (Effective October 1, 2019) Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
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