(a) In cases of acknowledgment or proof of deeds or conveyances of real estate taken within the United States or territories thereof, when taken before any court or officer having a seal of office, the deed or conveyance shall be attested under the seal of office. If the officer has no seal of office, then it shall be attested under the official signature of the officer.
(b) In all cases of deeds and conveyances proven or acknowledged outside the United States or its territories, the acknowledgment or proof must be attested under the official seal of the court or officer before whom the probate is had.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts
Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses
Chapter 47 - Acknowledgment and Proof of Instruments
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 16-47-101. Proof or acknowledgment as prerequisite to recording real estate conveyances
§ 16-47-102. Forms of acknowledgments — Validity — Acknowledgments of married persons
§ 16-47-103. Officers authorized to take proof or acknowledgment of real estate conveyances
§ 16-47-104. Attestation of acknowledgments
§ 16-47-105. Certificate of acknowledgment
§ 16-47-107. Forms for acknowledgment
§ 16-47-108. Validation of instruments affecting title to property
§ 16-47-109. Validation of acknowledgments of personnel of armed forces
§ 16-47-110. Recorded deed or written instrument affecting real estate