11-3 - Sealed writings; writings not purporting to be sealed.
§ 11-3. Sealed writings; writings not purporting to be sealed.
Any writing to which a natural person, corporation, limited liability companyor partnership, whether general or limited, making it affixes a scroll by wayof a seal, shall be of the same force as if it were actually sealed. Theimpression or stamping of a corporate or an official seal on paper orparchment alone shall be as valid as if made on wax or other adhesivesubstance. And any writing to which a natural person, corporation, limitedliability company or partnership, whether general or limited, making itaffixes his signature, or their signatures, and which writing in its bodysays "this deed," or "this indenture," or other words importing a sealedinstrument, or recognizes a seal, shall be of the same force as if it wereactually sealed by such person, corporation, limited liability company orpartnership, although no seal or scroll be attached; and any writing signedby a natural person, corporation, limited liability company or partnership,whether general or limited, and regularly acknowledged before an officerauthorized to take acknowledgments of deeds to be recorded in thisCommonwealth, in the body of which writing it clearly appears that the personso signing and acknowledging the same intends to and does grant or conveyunto the grantee named therein certain real estate as therein described, andin which the writing is not said to be a deed or an indenture, and does notpurport to be sealed, and to which no seal or scroll is attached, suchwriting shall pass the title to such real estate as effectually as if it werewritten and executed in strict accordance with the provisions of § 55-48; andany such writing admitted to record prior to June 19, 1946, shall be of theeffect as if made and recorded thereafter, except as to vested rights alreadyattached contrary to such writing.
(Code 1919, § 5562; 1934, p. 524; 1946, pp. 59, 426; 1975, c. 500; 1996, c.265.)