Uniform Acknowledgment Act
Arkansas · Practice, Procedure, And Courts · §§ 16-47-101 to 16-47-218 · 28 sections
Overview
The Uniform Acknowledgment Act governs how deeds and other written instruments affecting title to real property must be acknowledged or proved before they can be recorded. It designates the classes of officers authorized to take an acknowledgment — within the state, elsewhere in the United States, and outside the country — and prescribes standard certificate forms, the manner in which the officer establishes the identity of the person making the acknowledgment or of a witness proving the instrument, and the execution and authentication of the officer's certificate, including separate treatment of acknowledgments by married persons. It further recognizes acknowledgments taken under the laws of other jurisdictions, validates prior acknowledgments that were defective or unauthenticated as well as those taken for members of the armed forces, and directs that it be construed to make the law uniform among the states that adopt it.
Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.
In the courts
Sections of this act have been cited in 18 court decisions.
Most-cited authority: 297 Ark. 282 - McGuire v. Bell
Sections covered
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-101Proof or acknowledgment as prerequisite to recording real estate conveyances6 cites
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-102Forms of acknowledgments — Validity — Acknowledgments of married persons
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-103Officers authorized to take proof or acknowledgment of real estate conveyances1 cite
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-104Attestation of acknowledgments
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-105Certificate of acknowledgment
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-106Manner of making acknowledgment — Proof of deed or instrument — Proof of identity of grantor or witness5 cites
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-107Forms for acknowledgment
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-108Validation of instruments affecting title to property2 cites
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-109Validation of acknowledgments of personnel of armed forces
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-110Recorded deed or written instrument affecting real estate1 cite
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-201Acknowledgment of instruments
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-202Officials authorized to take within the state
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-203Officials authorized to take within the United States
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-204Officials authorized to take without the United States
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-205Proof of identity of person making2 cites
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-206Acknowledgment by a married woman
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-207[Repealed.]
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-208Execution of certificate by officer1 cite
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-209Authentication of acknowledgments
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-210Acknowledgments under laws of other states
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-211Validation of unauthenticated writings affecting title to property
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-212Act cumulative
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-213Acknowledgments by persons serving in or with the armed forces of the United States within or without the United States
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-214Acknowledgments previously taken unaffected
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-215Uniformity of interpretation
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-216Title of act
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-217Validation of prior acknowledgments — Construction of uniform act
- Ark. Code Ann. § 16-47-218Validation of acknowledgments — Construction of acts
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