§ 34-12-1 - Form of acknowledgment – Foreign acknowledgments.
SECTION 34-12-1
§ 34-12-1 Form of acknowledgment –Foreign acknowledgments. – Acknowledgment of any instrument hereafter made need not be in any set form,but shall be made by all the parties executing the instrument and thecertificate thereof shall express the ideas that the parties were each and allknown to the magistrate taking the acknowledgment, and known by the magistrateto be the parties executing the instrument, and that they acknowledge theinstrument to be their free act and deed; provided, however, that in case ofany such instrument executed without this state, and within the limits of theUnited States or of any dependency thereof, if the instrument is acknowledgedor proved in the manner prescribed by the law of the state, District ofColumbia, territory or such dependency, where executed, it shall be deemed tobe legally executed, and acknowledged and shall have the same effect as ifexecuted and acknowledged in the mode above prescribed, including anacknowledgment by less than all parties if made in a jurisdiction the laws ofwhich permit acknowledgments in that manner; provided, however, thatinstruments requiring acknowledgments by parties having opposing interests mustbe acknowledged by at least one party of each interest.