Pennsylvania Act 1945-124 — TO VALIDATE CERTAIN ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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TO VALIDATE CERTAIN ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
                 Act of Apr. 19, 1945, P.L. 282, No. 124              Cl. 68
                                  AN ACT

     To validate certain acknowledgments and to regulate the effect
        thereof.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  All acknowledgments of written instruments made
     and certified in the manner and form in general use in the
     Commonwealth of Pennsylvania prior to the act, approved the
     twenty-fourth day of July, one thousand nine hundred forty-one
     (Pamphlet Laws, four hundred ninety), are hereby validated, and
     all such instruments in writing so acknowledged and certified
     may be offered in evidence without further proof, and if such
     instrument so acknowledged and certified conveys or relates to
     or concerns any interest in lands, it may be recorded in the
     recorder's office of the county or counties where such lands
     lie, and the record of same made before or after the passage of
     this act shall be constructive notice of all matters contained
     therein, and such record or exemplification of same, duly
     certified, shall be legal evidence in all cases in which the
     original would be competent evidence.
        Section 2.  The provisions of this act shall become effective
     immediately upon final enactment.