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Okla. Stat. tit. 16, § 16-39a: Record of deeds, mortgages, etc., where acknowledgment

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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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