382.230 Conveyance not void because of error of clerk -- Validation of prior
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certification and proof.
(1)No conveyance of real property shall be void or invalid because of a failure by the
county clerk to incorporate in his certificate to such conveyance an endorsement of
acknowledgment made by his deputy thereon.
(2)When acknowledgments to conveyances of real property have been taken by a
deputy clerk, and a note or memorandum thereof endorsed by him on the
conveyance, and a certificate of such acknowledgment has been afterward written
out by the principal clerk and signed by him as having been done by such deputy or
as if the acknowledgment had been before such principal clerk, such conveyance
and certificate, and the recording thereof, shall be valid although the note or
memorandum made by the deputy was not copied into the certificate.
(3)No conveyance of real property certified, proven or lodged for record prior to June
17, 1924, shall be void or invalid because it was not certified, proven, or lodged for
record as required by the law in force at the time, if it was certified or proven in the
manner prescribed by the Act of 1910 c 82, or by KRS 382.130 or 382.150.