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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>369989</law_id><section_number>55.1-644</section_number><catch_line>Deeds defectively executed by corporation</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="120" identifier="55.1">Property and Conveyances</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="2" identifier="II">Real Estate Settlements and Recordation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="6">Recordation of Documents</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="5" identifier="5">Validating Certain Acts, Deeds, and Acknowledgments</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any deed of conveyance of real estate executed in the Commonwealth prior to July 1, 1995, by a corporation of the Commonwealth, when the certificate of acknowledgment of such deed fails to state the representative capacity of the <span class="dictionary">party</span> signing such deed for the corporation, shall be held and is hereby declared a valid and effective conveyance in every respect if otherwise valid according to the <span class="dictionary">law</span> in force at the time the deed was executed if such corporation, since making such conveyance, has been dissolved or otherwise gone out of existence.</p></section></text><history>1936, p. 328; Michie Code 1942, &#xA7; 5208a; Code 1950, &#xA7; 55-135; 1976, c. 685; 1984, c. 35; 1989, c. 602; 1995, c. 48; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
