All certificates of acknowledgments to deeds and other writings, taken and certified prior to July 1, 1995, by commissioners of deeds of states other than Virginia, appointed or commissioned by the governor of such state, and by notaries public appointed or commissioned by the Governor of Virginia, or appointed or commissioned under the laws of any state other than this Commonwealth, or any other officer authorized under this chapter to take and certify acknowledgments of deeds and other writings, which omit the citation of the date of the deed or certificate where it is clear from the content of the entire certificate and the instrument which has been acknowledged that the identity of the instrument or the certificate is the same, or if it can reasonably be inferred from the certificate of the person recording the instrument or other writing that the certificate refers to the same instrument, shall be held and the same hereby declared valid and effective in all respects, if otherwise valid according to the law then in force, or otherwise appear valid upon their face, 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.

History

1968, c. 297; 1972, c. 631; 1976, c. 685; 1984, c. 35; 1989, c. 602; 1995, c. 48.