66-5-109 - Effective date of conveyance.

66-5-109. Effective date of conveyance.

(a)  The effective date of any conveyance of real property in the state of Tennessee is presumed to be the date of the instrument of conveyance, and shall not be affected by a notary acknowledgment in such conveyance which may be dated prior or subsequent to the date of the conveyance.

(b)  (1)  If an instrument conveying real property is not dated, but contains a notary acknowledgment which is dated, the effective date of the instrument shall be the date of the notary acknowledgment.

     (2)  If the instrument is not dated, but contains more than one (1) notary acknowledgment, containing more than one (1) date, the latest date of a notary acknowledgment in the instrument shall be the effective date of the instrument.

[Acts 1989, ch. 483, §§ 1, 2.]