The following form of authentication of the proof or acknowledgment of a deed or other written instrument, when taken without this state and within any other state, territory, or district of the United States, or any form substantially in compliance with the foregoing provisions of this chapter, shall be used:
(Begin with a caption specifying the state, territory, or district, and county or place where the authentication is made.)
I, . . . . . . . . , clerk of the . . . . . . court in and for said county, which court is a court of record, having a seal (or I, . . . . . . . . , secretary of state of such state or territory), do hereby certify that . . . . . . . . , by and before whom the foregoing acknowledgment or proof was taken, was at the time of taking the same . . . . . . . . . . , (Name of office held) residing or authorized to act in said county, and was duly authorized by the laws of said state, territory, or district to take and certify acknowledgments or proofs of deeds of land in said state, territory, or district, and that said conveyance and the acknowledgment thereof are in due form of law; and, further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said . . . . . . . . , and that I verily believe that the signature to said certificate of acknowledgment or proof is genuine. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court or state this . . . . day of . . . . . . (month), . . . (year).
[C97, § 2946; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 10090; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 558.25]
2000 Acts, ch 1058, §63
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