Okla. Stat. tit. 16, § 16-39a: Record of deeds, mortgages, etc., where acknowledgment
Where this section sits in the code
- OK Code
- Title 16
defective - Validation.
All deeds, mortgages, conveyances, or other instruments
affecting the title to real property in the state, the
acknowledgment of which was taken and certificate of acknowledgment
executed by a Justice of the Peace of the county wherein such real
property is situated, and/or where any notarial acknowledgment was
taken before a notary public of any county in this state or of any
other state where the certificate of acknowledgment is defective in
form, and where any such instrument has actually been filed and
recorded or copied into the permanent volumes of public title
records in the office of the county clerk of the county in which
said property is situated for a period of five or more years and has
not been canceled of record, the recording of any such instrument is
and shall be and become a valid public record in all respects and
for all purposes as fully as if the same had been originally
acknowledged before and certificate executed by an authorized
officer and in the manner and form required by law at the time of
the execution thereof.
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