Oklahoma Statutes
Title 16. Conveyances
§16-39a. Record of deeds, mortgages, etc., where acknowledgment defective - Validation.

All deeds, mortgages, conveyances, or other instruments affecting the title to real property in the state, the acknowledgment of which was taken and certificate of acknowledgment executed by a Justice of the Peace of the county wherein such real property is situated, and/or where any notarial acknowledgment was taken before a notary public of any county in this state or of any other state where the certificate of acknowledgment is defective in form, and where any such instrument has actually been filed and recorded or copied into the permanent volumes of public title records in the office of the county clerk of the county in which said property is situated for a period of five or more years and has not been canceled of record, the recording of any such instrument is and shall be and become a valid public record in all respects and for all purposes as fully as if the same had been originally acknowledged before and certificate executed by an authorized officer and in the manner and form required by law at the time of the execution thereof.

Laws 1937, p. 313, § 1.

Structure Oklahoma Statutes

Oklahoma Statutes

Title 16. Conveyances

§16-1. Persons who may convey - Married persons - Legal entities.

§16-2. Witness not necessary.

§16-3. Attorney-in-fact.

§16-4. Necessity of writing and signing - Veterans' loans - Homestead - Joinder of husband and wife - Effect of record for 10 years.

§16-5. Validation of conveyances.

§16-6. When husband or wife may convey homestead.

§16-7. Husband or wife of incapacitated spouse may sell, convey, lease or mortgage homestead held in joint tenancy.

§16-8. Verified petition to be filed.

§16-9. Copy of petition to be served.

§16-9.1. Notice of sale - Orders.

§16-10. Order of sale to be entered of record.

§16-11. Estoppel by receiving benefits.

§16-11A. Constructive mortgage - Exemptions.

§16-12. Officers' deeds recorded.

§16-13. Conveyance of separate property.

§16-14. Terms defined.

§16-15. Necessity of acknowledgment and recording - Condition for judgment lien to be binding against third persons.

§16-16. Instruments filed for record as constructive notice.

§16-16.1. Filing of special improvement district assessment in office of county clerk.

§16-17. After-acquired title.

§16-18. Quitclaim conveys what.

§16-19. Warranty deed conveys what - Implied terms.

§16-20. Power of attorney - Execution - Recording.

§16-21. Revocation of power of attorney.

§16-22. Judgment for recovery of land - When effective against grantors.

§16-23. Notice of suit to grantor.

§16-24. Defense by warrantor - Recovery by warrantee.

§16-25. Failure to defend - Recovery.

§16-26. Acknowledgment before recording.

§16-27a. Instruments recorded for five (5) years valid notwithstanding defects - Evidence.

§16-28. Instruments to be printed or handwritten in English – Electronic filing.

§16-29. Fee simple - Exception.

§16-30. Will recorded.

§16-31. Judgment recorded.

§16-32. Minor may hold real estate - Estates to commence in future.

§16-33. Form of acknowledgment.

§16-34. Execution by mark.

§16-35. Acknowledgment to be under seal - Before whom taken.

§16-36. Legalizing acknowledgments heretofore taken.

§16-37. Foreign acknowledgments legalized.

§16-37a. Foreign acknowledgments validated.

§16-37b. Foreign execution and acknowledgments validated - Exceptions.

§16-38. Acknowledgments before deputy clerk of district court validated.

§16-39. Justice of the Peace - Acknowledgments validated.

§16-39a. Record of deeds, mortgages, etc., where acknowledgment defective - Validation.

§16-40. Form of warranty deed.

§16-41. Form of quitclaim deed.

§16-42. Form of sheriff's deed.

§16-43. Recording of instruments and judgments affecting real estate situated in more than one county.

§16-53. Recorded signed documents - Rebuttable presumptions.

§16-61. Definitions.

§16-62. Purchasers for value of real estate - Reliance upon status of title as reflected by county records and by decrees and judgements of courts.

§16-63. Notice of claim.

§16-66. Purpose.

§16-67. Claim and purchase of severed mineral interest through recorded affidavit of death and heirship.

§16-68. Abolition of doctrine of constructive possession.

§16-71. Marketable record title defined.

§16-72. Title subject to certain interests and defects.

§16-73. Claims prior to date of root title as null and void.

§16-74. Filing of notice of claim - Disability or lack of knowledge - Thirty-year possession as deemed equivalent to filing notice.

§16-75. Contents and recording of notice - Sham legal process.

§16-76. Exceptions to application of act - Stray instruments - Root of title - Severed mineral interests.

§16-77. Operation of statutes of limitations or recording statutes unaffected.

§16-78. Definitions.

§16-79. Penalties for filing slanderous notices of claims - Quiet title action independent of criminal action.

§16-80. Construction.

§16-82. Recording of affidavit - Rebuttable presumption.

§16-83. Matters to which affidavit may relate.

§16-84. Description of land - Recording fee - Indexing.

§16-85. False statements - Penalties.

§16-86.1. Short title.

§16-86.2. Definitions.

§16-86.3. Validity of electronic documents.

§16-86.4. Recording of documents.

§16-86.5. Administration and standards.

§16-86.6. Uniformity of application and construction.

§16-86.7. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.

§16-87. Recordation of electronic documents in tangible form.

§16-91. Corporations may convey by attorney.

§16-92. Instrument by corporation valid.

§16-93. Manner of execution by corporation.

§16-95. Acknowledgment by corporation - Form.

§16-96. Mechanic's materialman's lien statement - Execution, attestation, seal or acknowledgement not required - Release.

§16-201. Citation.

§16-202. Rights and duties of parties.

§16-203. Uniform law.