[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 22CFR92.30]

[Page 378]
 
                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 92--NOTARIAL AND RELATED SERVICES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 92.30  Acknowledgment defined.

    An acknowledgment is a proceeding by which a person who has executed 
an instrument goes before a competent officer or court and declares it 
to be his act and deed to entitle it to be recorded or to be received in 
evidence without further proof of execution. An acknowledgment is almost 
never made under oath and should not be confused with an oath (see 
Sec. 92.18(a) for definition of oath). Moreover, an acknowledgment is 
not the same as an attestation, the latter being the act of witnessing 
the execution of an instrument and then signing it as a witness. 
Instruments requiring acknowledgment generally are those relating to 
land, such as deeds, mortgages, leases, contracts for the sale of land, 
and so on.