The unintentional omission by the clerk or other officer of any words in a certificate of an acknowledgment, or probate of any deed or other instrument, shall in nowise vitiate the validity of the deed, or other instrument or the acknowledgement or probate thereof, but the same shall be good and valid to all intents and purposes, if the substance of the authentication required by law is in the certificate.
Code 1858, § 2080 (deriv. Acts 1845-1846, ch. 77); Shan., § 3757; mod. Code 1932, § 7669; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2613; Acts 2005, ch. 303, § 5.
Structure 2021 Tennessee Code
Chapter 26 - Effect of Authentication and Registration
§ 66-26-101. Effect of Instruments With or Without Registration
§ 66-26-102. Notice to All the World
§ 66-26-103. Unregistered Instruments Void as to Creditors and Bona Fide Purchasers
§ 66-26-104. Rights as Between Transferee of Decedent and Purchaser From Heir or Devisee
§ 66-26-105. Priority of Registered Instruments
§ 66-26-106. Presumption as to Validity of Registration After Twenty Years
§ 66-26-107. Presumption as to Subscription by Grantor After Thirty Years
§ 66-26-108. Presumption as to Deeds by Attorneys After Twenty Years' Registration
§ 66-26-109. Presumption as to Powers of Attorney After Twenty Years
§ 66-26-111. Proof of Instruments Registered Before 1839
§ 66-26-112. Erroneous Recital as to County Where Land Located
§ 66-26-113. Omission of Words From Certificate