Title 34
Property

Chapter 12
Acknowledgments and Notarial Acts

R.I. Gen. Laws § 34-12-6

§ 34-12-6. Effect of acknowledgment before armed forces officer.

An acknowledgment of instruments, attestation of documents, administration of oaths and affirmations, execution of depositions and affidavits, and performance of other notarial acts, made or taken before an armed forces officer, are hereby declared legal, valid, and binding, and instruments and documents so acknowledged, authenticated, or sworn to shall be admissible in evidence and eligible to be recorded in this state under the same circumstances and with the same force and effect as if the acknowledgment, attestation, oath, affirmation, deposition, affidavit, or other notarial act had been made or taken within this state before or by a duly qualified officer or official as otherwise provided by law.

History of Section.
P.L. 1944, ch. 1391, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 34-12-6.