Section 35-4-26

Acknowledgment — Officers authorized to take in other states or foreign countries.

Acknowledgments, proofs of conveyances and affidavits may be taken within the United States and beyond the state of Alabama, by judges and clerks of any federal court, judges and clerks of any state court of record in any state, notaries public, commissioners appointed by the governor of this state, or the commissioner of deeds for the state wherein the acknowledgment is taken, or by any commissioned officer of any of the armed forces of the United States. Beyond the limits of the United States, such acknowledgments, proofs and affidavits may be taken by the judges of any court of record, mayor or chief magistrate of any city, town, borough or county, or by any diplomatic, consular or commercial agent of the United States, notaries public or by any commissioned officer of any of the armed forces of the United States; provided, however, that when any such acknowledgment shall be taken by any commissioned officer of any of the armed forces of the United States, no seal of office shall be required, and his signature shall be prima facie proof of his authority hereunder.

(Code 1852, §1277; Code 1867, §1546; Code 1876, §2156; Code 1886, §1800; Code 1896, §994; Code 1907, §3359; Code 1923, §6842; Code 1940, T. 47, §27; Acts 1943, No. 240, p. 195; Acts 1947, No. 47, p. 15.)