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§39-1-13. Duty to Record Plat or Plan of Lots

When any tract or parcel of land within the limits of any county of the state has been or shall be hereafter subdivided into lots by any partition of land or by order of the owner or owners, or his or their agent, or otherwise and any lot or lots have been sold or conveyed, […]

§39-1-7. False Certificate of Acknowledgment

If any person shall in any case wilfully make any false certificate of acknowledgment, contrary to the true facts in the case, or shall certify the acknowledgment of any person whom he does not personally know to be the person whose name is signed to the writing acknowledged, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, […]

§39-1-2a. Other Requirements for Admission to Record of Certain Instruments

(a) In addition to the other requirements prescribed by law, no instrument by which the title to real estate or personal property, or any interest therein or lien thereon, is conveyed, created, encumbered, assigned or otherwise disposed of, shall be recorded or admitted to record, or filed by the county clerk unless the name of […]

§39-1-2b. Recordation of Certified Copies of Certain Instruments

Except as provided in this section, the clerk of the county commission of any county shall admit to record in the office of such clerk a copy of any contract, deed of trust, mortgage, lease, memorandum of lease, release, assignment, power of attorney or any other instrument or writing which has been certified by the […]

§39-1-3. Who May Take Acknowledgment

Upon the request of any person interested therein, such clerk of the county court shall also admit any such writing to record, as to any person whose name is signed thereto, upon a certificate of his acknowledgment before the president of a county court, a justice of the peace, notary public, recorder, prothonotary or clerk […]

§39-1-4. Form of Certificate of Acknowledgment

The certificate of acknowledgment mentioned in the preceding section may be in form or effect as follows: State (territory or district) of …………….., county of …………………….., to wit: I, ………, recorder of said municipality; or I, ………….., a notary public of said county; or I, …………., a clerk of the ………………. court of said county; […]