(a) Two justices of the peace, when taking or certifying an acknowledgment, shall be together; and a certificate of acknowledgment taken before them, may be according to the following form, viz:
State of Delaware
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Be it remembered, that on the ________________________________ day of ________________, in the year of our Lord, two thousand and ________________________________, personally came before me, the subscribers, two of the Justices of the Peace for ________________________________ County aforesaid, ________________________________ and ________________________________, his wife, parties to this indenture known to us personally (or proved on the oath of ________________________________), to be such, and severally acknowledged said indenture to be their act and deed respectively.
Witness our hands the day and year aforesaid.
(b) If the instrument acknowledged is not an indenture, the word “instrument” may be substituted for the word “indenture” in the form; if it is not under seal, the words “and deed” in the form shall be omitted. The certificate of acknowledgment may, in all cases, be according to the foregoing form. It may be varied in any case requiring a variance, the above form being given for general direction.
Structure Delaware Code
Subchapter II. Form, Acknowledgment and Proof of Deeds and Other Legal Instruments
§ 121. Form of deed; legal effect; other forms as valid.
§ 122. Acknowledgment and proof of deeds.
§ 123. Certification of acknowledgment or proof.
§ 124. Acknowledgment and execution of deed by married woman deserted without just cause.
§ 125. Place for taking acknowledgment or proof.
§ 126. Certification of acknowledgments by justices of the peace; form.
§ 127. Acknowledgment of corporate deeds or other instruments.
§ 128. Certification of acknowledgments by Mayor of Wilmington; fee.
§ 129. Acknowledgment or proof outside State.
§ 130. Notarial acts by members of the armed forces.
§ 131. Validation of certain instruments as deeds.
§ 132. Validity of legal instruments having defective acknowledgments; admissibility in evidence.
§ 133. Address of grantee on deed.