558.37  Certificate of acknowledgment -- attorney in fact.

The person taking the acknowledgment must endorse upon such instrument a certificate, setting forth the following particulars:

1.  The title of the person before whom the acknowledgment was taken.

2.  That the person making the acknowledgment was known to the officer taking the acknowledgment to be the identical person whose name is subscribed to the instrument as attorney for the grantor therein named, or that such identity was proved to the officer by at least one credible witness, personally known by the officer and therein named.

3.  That such person acknowledged said instrument to be the act and deed of the grantor therein named by that person, as such attorney thereunto appointed, voluntarily done and executed.

Section History: Early form

  [R60, § 2252; C73, § 1963; C97, § 2953; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 10101; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 558.37]


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