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25 entriesSection 1180Allows proof or acknowledgment of an instrument anywhere in California before the specified current or retired Supreme Court, appellate, or superior-court judicial…Section 1181Allows proof or acknowledgment of an instrument anywhere in California before a notary public, and within the relevant county or city and…Section 1181.1Prohibits anyone other than a Secretary-of-State-authorized online notary from taking proofs or acknowledgments through audio-video appearances. California online notarization cannot begin until…Section 1182Allows proof or acknowledgment of an instrument outside California but within the United States before specified federal or state judges and clerks,…Section 1183Allows proof or acknowledgment of an instrument outside the United States before specified U.S. diplomatic or consular officers, foreign judges of record,…Section 1183.5Allows qualifying active-duty or inactive-training armed-forces officers with federal notarial powers to perform notarial acts for specified service members, spouses, legal-assistance-eligible persons,…Section 1184Allows a duly authorized deputy of an officer identified in the referenced provisions to take an acknowledgment or proof when the officer…Section 1185Requires an acknowledgment officer to have satisfactory evidence that the signer is the individual described in and executing the instrument, using specified…Section 1188Requires an officer who takes an acknowledgment of an instrument to endorse on the instrument, or attach to it, a certificate that…Section 1189Requires California acknowledgment certificates to contain a legible boxed notice explaining that the officer verifies signer identity, not document truth or validity,…Section 1190Establishes that a conforming acknowledgment certificate for an instrument executed for an incorporated or unincorporated entity by a duly authorized person is…Section 1193Requires officers certifying acknowledgments or proofs for recording to authenticate their certificates with their signatures followed by their office names. They must…Section 1195Allows proof of execution of an unacknowledged instrument by the executing party, a subscribing witness, or specified other witnesses, but prohibits this…Section 1196Requires a subscribing witness’s status to be proved through the oath of a credible witness who presents the acknowledgment officer with an…Section 1197Requires a subscribing witness to prove that the named party is the person described in the instrument, that the party executed the…Section 1198Allows execution of an instrument to be established by handwriting proof when parties and subscribing witnesses are dead, nonresidents, unlocatable despite diligence,…Section 1199Requires evidence offered under the preceding handwriting-proof procedure to establish the applicable qualifying condition, the genuineness of the party’s signature through a…Section 1200Requires an officer certifying proof of an instrument’s execution to state in the certificate every legally required matter performed, known, or proved…Section 1201Allows officers authorized to take proof of instruments to administer prescribed oaths or affirmations, employ and swear interpreters, issue subpoenas, and punish…Section 1202Allows any interested party to bring an action in superior court to correct an acknowledgment or execution-proof certificate when the acknowledgment or…Section 1203Allows a person interested under an instrument entitled to be proved for recording to bring an action in superior court against the…Section 1204Allows a certified copy of a judgment entered under either of the two preceding judicial proof or certificate-correction procedures, when it shows…Section 1205Establishes that the chapter does not alter the legality of execution, acknowledgment, proof, form, or recording of a conveyance or other instrument…Section 1206Establishes that real-property conveyances made before the Code took effect, if acknowledged or proved under the law then in force, have the…Section 1207Establishes that 90 days after a real-property instrument is copied into the proper county record book, it gives subsequent purchasers and encumbrancers…