As Amended
SEC. 89-3-7. Forms of acknowledgment.
The following forms of acknowledgment may be used in the case of conveyances or other written instruments affecting real estate or personal property; and any acknowledgment so taken and certified shall be sufficient to satisfy all requirements of law:
(a) In the case of natural persons acting in their own right:
"STATE OF ----
COUNTY OF ----
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned authority in and for the said county and state, on this -- day of ----, 19--, within my jurisdiction, the within named ------, who acknowledged that (he)(she)(they) executed the above and foregoing instrument.
_________________ (NOTARY PUBLIC)
My Commission expires:
________"
(Affix official seal, if applicable)
(b) In the case of corporations:
"STATE OF ----
COUNTY OF ----
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned authority in and for the said county and state, on this -- day of ----, 19--, within my jurisdiction, the within named ---, who acknowledged that (he) (she) is --- of ---, a ---- corporation, and that for and on behalf of the said corporation, and as its act and deed (he)(she) executed the above and foregoing instrument, after first having been duly authorized by said corporation so to do.
_________________ (NOTARY PUBLIC)
My Commission expires:
________"
(Affix official seal, if applicable)
(c) In the case of persons acting in representative capacities:
"STATE OF ----
COUNTY OF ----
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned authority in and for the said county and state, on this -- day of ----, 19--, within my jurisdiction, the within named ----, who acknowledged that (he)(she) is ---- of ---- and that in said representative capacity (he)(she) executed the above and foregoing instrument, after first having been duly authorized so to do.
_________________ (NOTARY PUBLIC)
My Commission expires:
________"
(Affix official seal, if applicable)
(d) In the case of proof of execution of the instrument made by a subscribing witness:
"STATE OF ----
COUNTY OF ----
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned authority in and for the said county and state, on this -- day of --, 19--, within my jurisdiction, CD, one of the subscribing witnesses to the above and foregoing instrument, who, being first duly sworn, states that (he)(she) saw the within (or above) named AB, whose name is subscribed thereto, sign and deliver the same to EF (or that (he)(she) heard AB acknowledge that (he)(she) signed and delivered the same to EF); and that the affiant subscribed (his)(her) name as witness thereto in the presence of AB.
_______________(CD)
_________________ (NOTARY PUBLIC)
My Commission expires:
________"
(Affix official seal, if applicable)
SOURCES: Codes, 1892, Sec. 2465; 1906, Sec. 2799; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 2300; 1930, Sec. 2137; 1942, Sec. 858; Laws, 1988, ch. 475, Sec. 1, eff from and after July 1, 1988. Laws, 1992, ch. 354 Sec. 1, eff from and after passage (approved April 20, 1992).