A circuit court of any county or city, or clerk of such court, shall also record any writing as is described in § 55.1-600 as to any person whose name is signed thereto who at the time of such acknowledgment was in active service in the Armed Forces of the United States, or as to the consort of such person, upon the certificate of any commissioned officer of the army, navy, marine corps, air force, coast guard, any state national guard that is federally recognized, or other branch of the service of which such person is a member, that such writing had been acknowledged before him by such person. Such certificate shall be written upon or attached to such writing and shall be substantially to the following effect:
In the army (or navy, etc.) of the United States.
I, ________, a commissioned officer of the army (or navy, marine corps, air force, coast guard, or other branch of service) of the United States with the rank of lieutenant (or ensign or other appropriate rank) whose home address is ________, do certify that E.F. (or E.F. and G.H., and so forth), whose name (or names) is (or are) signed to the writing above (or hereto attached), bearing date on the ______ day of ____, and who, or whose consort, is a private (corporal, seaman, captain, or other grade or rank) in the army (or navy, etc.) of the United States, and whose home address is ________, has (or have) acknowledged the same before me.
Given under my hand this ______ day of ______.
Such acknowledgment may be taken at any place where the officer taking the acknowledgment and the person whose name is signed to the writing may be. Such commissioned officer may take the acknowledgment of any person in any branch of the Armed Forces of the United States or the consort of such person.
Every acknowledgment executed prior to July 1, 1995, in substantial compliance with the provisions of this section is hereby validated, ratified, and confirmed, notwithstanding any error or omission with respect to any address, grade, or rank.
1942, p. 426; Michie Code 1942, § 5205a; 1944, p. 25; 1948, p. 393; Code 1950, § 55-115; 1964, c. 129; 1972, c. 458; 1995, c. 48; 2019, c. 712.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 55.1 - Property and Conveyances
Chapter 6 - Recordation of Documents
§ 55.1-600. When and where writings recorded
§ 55.1-601. Recording and indexing of certain documents showing changes of names
§ 55.1-602. Presumption that recorded writings are in proper form
§ 55.1-603. Deed of real estate investment trust
§ 55.1-604. When clerk may refuse document to be recorded
§ 55.1-605. Power of attorney; where recorded
§ 55.1-606. Standards for writings to be docketed or recorded
§ 55.1-607. When original of writing once recorded is lost, how copy recorded elsewhere
§ 55.1-609. Correcting errors in deeds, deeds of trust, and mortgages; affidavit
§ 55.1-610. Recordation of copy of lost deed previously recorded in what is now West Virginia
§ 55.1-612. Acknowledgment within the United States or its dependencies
§ 55.1-613. Acknowledgments outside of the United States and its dependencies
§ 55.1-615. Acknowledgments taken before commissioned officers in military service
§ 55.1-617. Proof of authority of person performing notarial act
§ 55.1-618. What person taking acknowledgment shall certify
§ 55.1-619. When form of certificate of acknowledgment accepted
§ 55.1-620. Meaning of "acknowledged before me."
§ 55.1-621. Statutory short forms of acknowledgment
§ 55.1-622. Application of article; article cumulative
§ 55.1-623. Uniform interpretation
§ 55.1-624. Deeds of corporations; how to be executed and acknowledged
§ 55.1-625. Acknowledgments on behalf of corporations and others
§ 55.1-626. Corporate acknowledgment taken before officer or stockholder
§ 55.1-627. Acts of notaries public, etc., who have held certain other offices
§ 55.1-628. Validation of acknowledgments when seal not affixed
§ 55.1-629. Acknowledgment taken by trustee in deed of trust
§ 55.1-630. Acknowledgment taken by trustee in deed of trust; later date
§ 55.1-631. Certain acknowledgments taken and certified before July 1, 1995
§ 55.1-632. Acknowledgments taken by certain justices of the peace, mayors, etc.
§ 55.1-633. Acknowledgments taken by officers after expiration of terms
§ 55.1-634. Acknowledgments taken by notaries in service during World War I
§ 55.1-635. Acknowledgments before foreign officials who failed to affix seals
§ 55.1-636. Acknowledgments taken by notaries in foreign countries
§ 55.1-637. Acknowledgments taken by officer who was spouse of grantee
§ 55.1-638. Acknowledgment when notary certifies erroneously as to expiration of commission
§ 55.1-640. Acknowledgments taken before notary whose commission has expired
§ 55.1-644. Deeds defectively executed by corporation
§ 55.1-645. Deeds to which corporate seal not affixed or not attested
§ 55.1-646. Acknowledgments of corporations taken by officers or stockholders
§ 55.1-647. Recordation certificate not signed by clerk
§ 55.1-648. Recordation certificate not signed by clerk; when clerk has died
§ 55.1-649. Recordation of judgments affecting title to land
§ 55.1-650. Judgments of United States courts affecting realty
§ 55.1-651. Orders in bankruptcy
§ 55.1-652. Certificates of commencement of case in bankruptcy
§ 55.1-653. Where notices and certificates affecting liens to be filed
§ 55.1-654. Certification of notices and certificates
§ 55.1-655. Duties of filing officers
§ 55.1-656. Fees of filing officers other than clerk of State Corporation Commission
§ 55.1-657. Fees of clerk of State Corporation Commission
§ 55.1-658. Construction of article
§ 55.1-659. Certificates and notices affecting liens filed on or before July 1, 1970
§ 55.1-660. No action to be brought against the State Corporation Commission or its staff
§ 55.1-662. Validity of electronically filed and recorded land records
§ 55.1-663. Recording of electronic documents among the land records
§ 55.1-665. Uniformity of application and construction
§ 55.1-666. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act