§ 47-100. Acknowledgments taken by officer who was grantor.
§47‑100. Acknowledgments taken by officer who was grantor.
In all cases where a deed ordeeds dated prior to the first day of January, 1980, purporting to conveylands, have been registered in the office of the register of deeds of thecounty where the lands conveyed in said deed or deeds are located, prior tosaid first day of January, 1980, and the acknowledgments or proof of executionof such deed or deeds has been taken as to some of the grantors by an officerwho was himself one of the grantors named in such deed or deeds, such defectiveexecution, acknowledgment and proof of execution and probate of such deed ordeeds thereon and the registration thereof as above described, shall be, andthe same are hereby declared to be in all respects valid, and such deed ordeeds shall be declared to be in all respects duly executed, probated andrecorded to the same effect as if such officer taking such proof oracknowledgment of execution had not been named as a grantor therein, or inanywise interested therein. (1929, c. 48, s. 1; 1953, c.986; 1991 (Reg. Sess., 1992), c. 1030, s. 51.8.)