The unintentional omission by the clerk or other officer of any words in a certificate of an acknowledgment, or probate of any deed or other instrument, shall in nowise vitiate the validity of the deed, or other instrument or the acknowledgement or probate thereof, but the same shall be good and valid to all intents and purposes, if the substance of the authentication required by law is in the certificate.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 66-26-113
Omission of words from certificate
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case McAllester v. Aldridge (In Re Anderson) (1983)
Most recently applied in Mostoller v. Equity One, Inc. (In Re Hickman) (May 2007)
Code 1858, § 2080 (deriv
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