People ex rel. Title Guarantee & Trust Co. v. McQuade

The motion presents the question of the sufficiency of a certificate of authentication of an acknowledgment taken out of this state, under the provisions of section 312 of the Real Property Law, as amended by chapter 202 of the Laws of 1922, which with the amendment in italics, reads as follows:

“ * * * such certificate of authentication must specify that, at the time of taking the acknowledgment or proof, the person taking it was duly authorized to take the same; that the authenticating officer is acquainted with the former’s handwriting, or has compared the signature to the original…