1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 111.312, a certificate of the acknowledgment of any conveyance or other instrument in any way affecting the title to real or personal property, or the proof of the execution thereof, as provided in this chapter, signed by the person taking the same, and under the seal or stamp of that person, if the person is required by law to have a seal or stamp, entitles the conveyance or instrument, with the certificate or certificates, to be recorded in the office of the recorder of any county in this state.
2. Any state or United States contract or patent for land may be recorded without any acknowledgment or proof.
[18:9:1861; A 1909, 270; RL § 1035; NCL § 1493] — (NRS A 1969, 491; 1989, 1645)