ARTICLE 3. Proof and Acknowledgment of Instruments [1180. - 1207.]
Article 3 enacted 1872.
§§ 1180–1207 · 25 sections
- § 1180 The proof or acknowledgment of an instrument may be made at any place within this state before a justice, retired justice, or Clerk/Executive Officer of the…
- § 1181 The proof or acknowledgment of an instrument may be made before a notary public at any place within this state, or within the county or city and county in this…
- § 1181.1 (a) Section 1181 shall not be construed to authorize any person, other than a notary public authorized by the Secretary of State to perform online… see note
- § 1182 The proof or acknowledgment of an instrument may be taken without this state, but within the United States, and within the jurisdiction of the officer, by any…
- § 1183 (a) The proof or acknowledgment of an instrument may be taken without the United States, by any of the following: (1) A minister, commissioner, or chargè…
- § 1183.5 Any officer on active duty or performing inactive-duty training in the armed forces having the general powers of a notary public pursuant to Section 936 or…
- § 1184 When any of the officers mentioned in Sections 1180, 1181, 1182, and 1183 are authorized by a law to appoint a deputy, the acknowledgment or proof may be taken…
- § 1185 (a) The acknowledgment of an instrument shall not be taken unless the officer taking it has satisfactory evidence that the person making the acknowledgment is…
- § 1188 An officer taking the acknowledgment of an instrument shall endorse thereon or attach thereto a certificate pursuant to Section 1189.
- § 1189 (a) (1) Any certificate of acknowledgment taken within this state shall include a notice at the top of the certificate of acknowledgment in an enclosed box…
- § 1190 The certificate of acknowledgment of an instrument executed on behalf of an incorporated or unincorporated entity by a duly authorized person in the form…
- § 1193 Officers taking and certifying acknowledgments or proof of instruments for record, must authenticate their certificates by affixing thereto their signatures,…
- § 1195 (a) Proof of the execution of an instrument, when not acknowledged, may be made by any of the following: (1) By the party executing it, or either of them. (2)…
- § 1196 A witness shall be proved to be a subscribing witness by the oath of a credible witness who provides the officer with any document satisfying the requirements…
- § 1197 The subscribing witness must prove that the person whose name is subscribed to the instrument as a party is the person described in it, and that such person…
- § 1198 The execution of an instrument may be established by proof of the handwriting of the party and of a subscribing witness, if there is one, in the following…
- § [1199.] Section Eleven Hundred and Ninety-nine. The evidence taken under the preceding section must satisfactorily prove to the officer the following facts: One—The…
- § 1200 An officer taking proof of the execution of any instrument must, in his certificate indorsed thereon or attached thereto, set forth all the matters required by…
- § 1201 Officers authorized to take the proof of instruments are authorized in such proceedings: 1. To administer oaths or affirmations, as prescribed in Section 2093,…
- § 1202 When the acknowledgment or proof of the execution of an instrument is properly made, but defectively certified, any party interested may have an action in the…
- § 1203 Any person interested under an instrument entitled to be proved for record, may institute an action in the superior court against the proper parties to obtain…
- § 1204 A certified copy of the judgment in a proceeding instituted under either of the two preceding sections, showing the proof of the instrument, and attached…
- § 1205 The legality of the execution, acknowledgment, proof, form, or record of any conveyance or other instrument made before this Code goes into effect, executed,…
- § 1206 All conveyances of real property made before this Code goes into effect, and acknowledged or proved according to the laws in force at the time of such making…
- § 1207 Any instrument affecting the title to real property, 90 days after the same has been copied into the proper book of record, kept in the office of any county…