CODE OF VIRGINIA

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TAKEN BEFORE NOTARY WHOSE COMMISSION HAS EXPIRED; LATER DATE;
INTERVENING VESTED RIGHTS SAVED (§ 55-134)

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.

HISTORY: 1934, p. 258; Michie Code 1942, § 5209j; 1952, c. 244; 1972, c. 631;
1976, c. 685; 1984, c. 35; 1989, c. 602; 1995, c. 48.