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Statutes > Virginia > Title-55 > Chapter-6 > 55-134§ 55-134. Acknowledgments taken before notary whose commission has expired;later date; intervening vested rights saved.
All certificates of acknowledgment to deeds and other writings taken andcertified prior to July 1, 1995, by notaries public appointed or commissionedby the Governor, who took and certified such acknowledgments after their termof office had expired, shall be held, and the same are hereby declared, validand effective in all respects, if otherwise valid according to the law thenin force, and all such deeds and other writings which have been admitted torecord in any clerk's office in the Commonwealth upon such certificates shallbe held to be duly and regularly recorded, if such recordation be otherwisevalid according to the law then in force; however, nothing in this sectionshall be so construed as to affect any intervening vested rights.
(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.)
