Form of Certificate of Acknowledgment

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1. If the acknowledgment is made before a county clerk or deputy, or clerk and master, or notary public, or before any of the officers out of the state who are commissioned or accredited to act at the place where the acknowledgment is taken, and having an official seal, viz: those named in §§ 66-22-103 and 66-22-104, and, also, any consular officer of the United States having an official seal, such officer shall write upon or annex to the instrument the following certificate, in which the officer shall set forth such officer's official capacity:

   State of Tennessee      )County of      )

   Personally appeared before me, (name of clerk or deputy), clerk (or deputy clerk) of this county, (bargainor's name), the within named bargainor, with whom I am personally acquainted (or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence), and who acknowledged that such person executed the within instrument for the purposes therein contained.

   Witness my hand, at office, this  day of  , 20  .

2. Or, in the alternative, the following certificate, in case of natural persons acting in their own right:

   State of Tennessee      )County of      )

   On this  day of  , 20  , before me personally appeared  , to me known to be the person (or persons) described in and who executed the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged that such person (or persons) executed the same as such person's (or persons') free act and deed.

3. Or, in case of natural persons acting by attorney:

   State of Tennessee      )County of      )

   On this  day of  , 20  , before me personally appeared  , to me known (or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence) to be the person who executed the foregoing instrument in behalf of  acknowledged that such person executed the same as the free act and deed of  .

Code 1858, § 2042 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 90, § 3); Shan., § 3717; Acts 1919, ch. 48, § 1; Shan. Supp. § 3747a2; mod. Code 1932, § 7634; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 22, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2207; Acts 1983, ch. 158, §§ 2, 3.

Compiler's Notes. Acts 1986, ch. 717, § 3 purported to repeal §§66-22-107 and66-22-108 effective July 1, 1987; however, Acts 1986, ch. 717, § 3 has itself been repealed by Acts 1987, ch. 125, § 3.

Cross-References. Certificate of acknowledgment form, §66-22-114.

Textbooks. Tennessee Forms (Robinson, Ramsey and Harwell), Nos. 7-402, 7-403, 7-405.

Tennessee Jurisprudence, 1 Tenn. Juris., Acknowledgments, §§ 1, 8, 15, 20; 18 Tenn. Juris., Mechanics' Liens, § 15.

Law Reviews.

The Tennessee Recording System (Toxey H. Sewell), 50 Tenn. L. Rev. 1 (1982).

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