Court Opinion

ID: 3381737
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 18:30:42.570974+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:52:09.052425
License: Public Domain

I concur with this observation: where a certificate of acknowledgment recites affirmatively that the partiesdid appear before the officer, jurisdiction is presumed, and such certificate of acknowledgment is to be taken as a quasi-judicial record which cannot be overthrown, except upon clear and convincing affirmative evidence to the effect that the officer's certificate is in effect a pure fabrication. In other words, the falsification or *Page 257 
fabrication of a certificate of acknowledgment is a fraud for which a remedy exists. But every presumption of law and of fact is in favor of the verity of the recited facts specified in an acknowledgment, and a certificate of acknowledgment in proper form should be sustained by and through its own force and effect as evidence, unless clearly and affirmatively impeached.