Validating Certain Acts, Deeds And Acknowledgments

This is Article 4 of the Code of Virginia, titled “Validating Certain Acts, Deeds And Acknowledgments.” It is part of Title 55, titled “Property And Conveyances.” It is part of Chapter 6, titled “Recordation Of Documents.” It’s comprised of the following 21 sections.

§ 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
§ 55-137.2: Same; when clerk has died