Tennessee § 66-22-105 - Authentication of instruments by or to county clerk.
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§ 66-22-105. Authentication of instruments by or to county clerk.
The probate or acknowledgment of any deed or other instrument, made by or to a clerk of any county, may be taken and made before the judge having probate jurisdiction in the clerk's county, the clerk and master or the notary public, and the authentication entered on record in the office of the county clerk as other instruments; provided, that the clerk collect and account for the state tax on all such instruments as though the acknowledgment had been taken before the clerk. Code 1858, § 2069; Acts 1868-1869, ch. 32, § 1; Shan., § 3746; mod. Code 1932, § 7661; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 16, 22, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 64-2205. Cross-References. Fees of county clerk, § 8-21-701 . Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 1 Tenn. Juris., Acknowledgments, § 1.
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