Oklahoma § 16-39 - Justice of the Peace - Acknowledgments validated

§ 16-39. Justice of the Peace - Acknowledgments validated

In all cases where, prior to May 16th, 1913, any Justice of the

Peace has taken acknowledgments of deeds or other conveyances of

real estate affecting and relating to real estate located in a

county or counties other than the county in which such Justice of

the Peace resided, such acknowledgments are hereby legalized and

made binding, and such acknowledgments shall have the same force and

effect as if taken before some Justice of the Peace, a resident of

the county in which the land sought to be deeded or conveyed was

situated.

Laws 1923, c. 153, p. 253, § 1.

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 16. Conveyances

§16-39a. Record of deeds, mortgages, etc., where acknowledgment

defective - Validation.

All deeds, mortgages, conveyances, or other instruments

affecting the title to real property in the state, the

acknowledgment of which was taken and certificate of acknowledgment

executed by a Justice of the Peace of the county wherein such real

property is situated, and/or where any notarial acknowledgment was

taken before a notary public of any county in this state or of any

other state where the certificate of acknowledgment is defective in

form, and where any such instrument has actually been filed and

recorded or copied into the permanent volumes of public title

records in the office of the county clerk of the county in which

said property is situated for a period of five or more years and has

not been canceled of record, the recording of any such instrument is

and shall be and become a valid public record in all respects and

for all purposes as fully as if the same had been originally

acknowledged before and certificate executed by an authorized

officer and in the manner and form required by law at the time of

the execution thereof.

Laws 1937, p. 313, § 1.