Recordation of Documents

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  2. Code of Virginia
  3. Property and Conveyances
  4. Recordation of Documents

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Section
55.1-600

When and where writings recorded

Section
55.1-601

Recording and indexing of certain documents showing changes of names

Section
55.1-602

Presumption that recorded writings are in proper form

Section
55.1-603

Deed of real estate investment trust

Section
55.1-604

When clerk may refuse document to be recorded

Section
55.1-605

Power of attorney; where recorded

Section
55.1-606

Standards for writings to be docketed or recorded

Section
55.1-607

When original of writing once recorded is lost, how copy recorded elsewhere

Section
55.1-608

Certifications of recordation upon copies of certain instruments and subsequent recordation in other county or city

Section
55.1-609

Correcting errors in deeds, deeds of trust, and mortgages; affidavit

Section
55.1-610

Recordation of copy of lost deed previously recorded in what is now West Virginia

Section
55.1-611

Repealed

Section
55.1-612

Acknowledgment within the United States or its dependencies

Section
55.1-613

Acknowledgments outside of the United States and its dependencies

Section
55.1-614

Acknowledgments by persons subject to Uniform Code of Military Justice; validation of certain acknowledgments

Section
55.1-615

Acknowledgments taken before commissioned officers in military service

Section
55.1-616

"Notarial acts" defined; who may perform notarial acts outside the Commonwealth for use in the Commonwealth

Section
55.1-617

Proof of authority of person performing notarial act

Section
55.1-618

What person taking acknowledgment shall certify

Section
55.1-619

When form of certificate of acknowledgment accepted

Section
55.1-620

Meaning of "acknowledged before me."

Section
55.1-621

Statutory short forms of acknowledgment

Section
55.1-622

Application of article; article cumulative

Section
55.1-623

Uniform interpretation

Section
55.1-624

Deeds of corporations; how to be executed and acknowledged

Section
55.1-625

Acknowledgments on behalf of corporations and others

Section
55.1-626

Corporate acknowledgment taken before officer or stockholder

Section
55.1-627

Acts of notaries public, etc., who have held certain other offices

Section
55.1-628

Validation of acknowledgments when seal not affixed

Section
55.1-629

Acknowledgment taken by trustee in deed of trust

Section
55.1-630

Acknowledgment taken by trustee in deed of trust; later date

Section
55.1-631

Certain acknowledgments taken and certified before July 1, 1995

Section
55.1-632

Acknowledgments taken by certain justices of the peace, mayors, etc.

Section
55.1-633

Acknowledgments taken by officers after expiration of terms

Section
55.1-634

Acknowledgments taken by notaries in service during World War I

Section
55.1-635

Acknowledgments before foreign officials who failed to affix seals

Section
55.1-636

Acknowledgments taken by notaries in foreign countries

Section
55.1-637

Acknowledgments taken by officer who was spouse of grantee

Section
55.1-638

Acknowledgment when notary certifies erroneously as to expiration of commission

Section
55.1-639

Acknowledgments before officer of city or county consolidating, etc., prior to expiration date of commission

Section
55.1-640

Acknowledgments taken before notary whose commission has expired

Section
55.1-641

Acknowledgments taken before notary whose commission has expired; later date; intervening vested rights saved

Section
55.1-642

Acknowledgments taken before notary who was appointed but failed to qualify; vested rights saved

Section
55.1-643

Acknowledgments taken before a notary at large who failed to cite the jurisdiction in which the acknowledgment was taken; vested rights saved

Section
55.1-644

Deeds defectively executed by corporation

Section
55.1-645

Deeds to which corporate seal not affixed or not attested

Section
55.1-646

Acknowledgments of corporations taken by officers or stockholders

Section
55.1-647

Recordation certificate not signed by clerk

Section
55.1-648

Recordation certificate not signed by clerk; when clerk has died

Section
55.1-649

Recordation of judgments affecting title to land

Section
55.1-650

Judgments of United States courts affecting realty

Section
55.1-651

Orders in bankruptcy

Section
55.1-652

Certificates of commencement of case in bankruptcy

Section
55.1-653

Where notices and certificates affecting liens to be filed

Section
55.1-654

Certification of notices and certificates

Section
55.1-655

Duties of filing officers

Section
55.1-656

Fees of filing officers other than clerk of State Corporation Commission

Section
55.1-657

Fees of clerk of State Corporation Commission

Section
55.1-658

Construction of article

Section
55.1-659

Certificates and notices affecting liens filed on or before July 1, 1970

Section
55.1-660

No action to be brought against the State Corporation Commission or its staff

Section
55.1-661

Definitions

Section
55.1-662

Validity of electronically filed and recorded land records

Section
55.1-663

Recording of electronic documents among the land records

Section
55.1-664

Uniform standards

Section
55.1-665

Uniformity of application and construction

Section
55.1-666

Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act