Tennessee Code 58-1-606 – Validity of notarial acts of officers
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 58-1-606
- Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
- Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Such acknowledgment of instruments, attestation of documents, administration of oaths and affirmations, execution of depositions and affidavits, and performance of other notarial acts as aforementioned, heretofore or hereafter made or taken, are declared legal, valid and binding, and instruments and documents so acknowledged, authenticated, or sworn to, shall be admissible in evidence and eligible to record in this state under the same circumstances, and with the same force and effect, as if such acknowledgment, attestation, oath, affirmation, deposition, affidavit, or other notarial act as aforementioned, had been made or taken within this state before or by a duly qualified officer or official as otherwise provided by law.