Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion

April 5, 1988 Honorable Travis S. Ware opinion No. JM-883 Criminal District Attorney Civil Division Re: Requirements of acknow- P. 0. BOX 10536 ledgment and jurat in Lubbock, Texas 79408 instruments recorded by a county clerk (RQ-1339) Dear Mr. Ware: You ask whether a jurat may be included within an acknowledgment. A jurat is a certificate added to an affidavit stating when, before whom, and where it was made, while an acknowledgment is a declaration of a fact to qive it legal validity. Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary. * &Hilv- o * nc., 590 S.W.2d 723. 729 (Tex. Civ. ADD. - San…