55-137 - Acknowledgments of corporations taken by officers or stockholders. - Virginia Statutes

§ 55-137. Acknowledgments of corporations taken by officers or stockholders.

No acknowledgment heretofore taken to any deed or any writing executed by acompany, or for the benefit of a company, shall be held to be invalid byreason of the acknowledgment having been taken by a notary or other officerduly authorized to take acknowledgments who, at the time of taking theacknowledgment, was a stockholder, an officer, or both, in the company whichexecuted the deed or writing, or for the benefit of which the deed or writingwas executed, but who was not otherwise interested in the property conveyedor disposed of by such deed or writing; and such deed or other writing, andthe recordation thereof, shall be valid in all respects as if this sectionhad been in force when it was executed.

(Code 1919, § 5209; 1926, p. 340.)