A will, at the time of its execution or at any subsequent date, may be madeself-proved by the acknowledgment thereof by the testator and the attestingwitnesses, each made before an officer authorized to administer oaths underthe laws of the Commonwealth, or the laws of the state where theacknowledgment occurred or before an officer of the foreign service of theUnited States, a consular agent, or any other person authorized by regulationof the United States Department of State to perform notarial acts in theplace in which the act is performed, and evidenced by the officer'scertificate, attached or annexed to the will. The officer's certificateshall be substantially as follows in form and content:
STATE OF VIRGINIA CITY/COUNTY OF ............ Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared .........., .........., and .........., known to me to be the testator and the witnesses, respectively whose names are signed to the attached or foregoing instrument and, all of these persons being by me first duly sworn, .........., the testator, declared to me and to the witnesses in my presence that said instrument is his last will and testament and that he had willingly signed or directed another to sign the same for him, and executed it in the presence of said witnesses as his free and voluntary act for the purposes therein expressed, that said witnesses stated before me that the foregoing will was executed and acknowledged by the testator as his last will and testament in the presence of said witnesses who in his presence and at his request and in the presence of each other did subscribe their names thereto as attesting witnesses on the day of the date of said will and that the testator, at the time of the execution of said will, was over the age of eighteen years and of sound and disposing mind and memory. Sworn and acknowledged before me by ........, the testator, and ......... and .........., witnesses, this .... day of ........ A.D., ....... SIGNED .................... .................... (OFFICIAL CAPACITY OF OFFICER)
A will, at the time of its execution or at any subsequent date, may be madeself-proved by the acknowledgment thereof by the testator and the attestingwitnesses, each made before an officer authorized to administer oaths underthe laws of the Commonwealth, or the laws of the state where theacknowledgment occurred or before an officer of the foreign service of theUnited States, a consular agent, or any other person authorized by regulationof the United States Department of State to perform notarial acts in theplace in which the act is performed, and evidenced by the officer'scertificate, attached or annexed to the will. The officer's certificateshall be substantially as follows in form and content:
STATE OF VIRGINIA CITY/COUNTY OF ............ Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared .........., .........., and .........., known to me to be the testator and the witnesses, respectively whose names are signed to the attached or foregoing instrument and, all of these persons being by me first duly sworn, .........., the testator, declared to me and to the witnesses in my presence that said instrument is his last will and testament and that he had willingly signed or directed another to sign the same for him, and executed it in the presence of said witnesses as his free and voluntary act for the purposes therein expressed, that said witnesses stated before me that the foregoing will was executed and acknowledged by the testator as his last will and testament in the presence of said witnesses who in his presence and at his request and in the presence of each other did subscribe their names thereto as attesting witnesses on the day of the date of said will and that the testator, at the time of the execution of said will, was over the age of eighteen years and of sound and disposing mind and memory. Sworn and acknowledged before me by ........, the testator, and ......... and .........., witnesses, this .... day of ........ A.D., ....... SIGNED .................... .................... (OFFICIAL CAPACITY OF OFFICER)
A will, at the time of its execution or at any subsequent date, may be madeself-proved by the acknowledgment thereof by the testator and the attestingwitnesses, each made before an officer authorized to administer oaths underthe laws of the Commonwealth, or the laws of the state where theacknowledgment occurred or before an officer of the foreign service of theUnited States, a consular agent, or any other person authorized by regulationof the United States Department of State to perform notarial acts in theplace in which the act is performed, and evidenced by the officer'scertificate, attached or annexed to the will. The officer's certificateshall be substantially as follows in form and content:
STATE OF VIRGINIA CITY/COUNTY OF ............ Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared .........., .........., and .........., known to me to be the testator and the witnesses, respectively whose names are signed to the attached or foregoing instrument and, all of these persons being by me first duly sworn, .........., the testator, declared to me and to the witnesses in my presence that said instrument is his last will and testament and that he had willingly signed or directed another to sign the same for him, and executed it in the presence of said witnesses as his free and voluntary act for the purposes therein expressed, that said witnesses stated before me that the foregoing will was executed and acknowledged by the testator as his last will and testament in the presence of said witnesses who in his presence and at his request and in the presence of each other did subscribe their names thereto as attesting witnesses on the day of the date of said will and that the testator, at the time of the execution of said will, was over the age of eighteen years and of sound and disposing mind and memory. Sworn and acknowledged before me by ........, the testator, and ......... and .........., witnesses, this .... day of ........ A.D., ....... SIGNED .................... .................... (OFFICIAL CAPACITY OF OFFICER)
