55-121 - Corporate acknowledgment taken before officer or stockholder. - Virginia Statutes

§ 55-121. Corporate acknowledgment taken before officer or stockholder.

Any notary or other officer duly authorized to take acknowledgments may takethe acknowledgment to any deed or other writing, executed by a company, or toa company or for the benefit of a company, although he may be a stockholder,an officer, or both, in such company; provided he is not otherwise interestedin the property conveyed or disposed of by such deed or other writing; andnothing herein shall be construed to authorize any officer to take anacknowledgment to any deed or other writing executed by such company by andthrough him as an officer or stockholder thereof, or to him for the benefitof such company.

(Code 1919, § 5209; 1926, p. 340.)