[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 22, Volume 1]

[Revised as of April 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 22CFR92.30]



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                       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.