California Civil Code ARTICLE 3 - Proof and Acknowledgment of Instruments

• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 1182.
  The proof or acknowledgment of an instrument may be made without this state, but within the United States, and within the jurisdiction of the officer,...
• Section 1183.
  The proof or acknowledgment of an instrument may be made without the United States, before any of the following:(a) A minister, commissioner, or chargè d’affaires of...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 the...
• Section 1188.
  An officer taking the acknowledgment of an instrument shall endorse thereon or attach thereto a certificate pursuant to Section 1189.(Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 78,...
• Section 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 stating:...
• Section 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 specified...
• Section 1193.
  Officers taking and certifying acknowledgments or proof of instruments for record, must authenticate their certificates by affixing thereto their signatures, followed by the names of...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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,...
• Section [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 existence of one...
• Section 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...
• Section 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, Code of Civil...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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, acknowledged,...
• Section 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...
• Section 1207.
  Any instrument affecting the title to real property, one year after the same has been copied into the proper book of record, kept in the...

Last modified: October 22, 2018