A deed concerning lands, tenements or hereditaments may be acknowledged in any county, by any party to the deed, in the Superior Court, or before any judge of this State, or notary public, or before 2 justices of the peace for the same county, or before the Mayor of the City of Wilmington. Such deed may also be acknowledged in the Superior Court by attorney, by virtue of a power contained in it or separate from it, the power being first proved in the Court. Also, such deed may be proved in the Court by 1 or more of the subscribing witnesses.

Code 1852, § ?1613; 17 Del. Laws, c. 207, §§ ?8, 28; Code 1915, § ?3199; Code 1935, § ?3660; 25 Del. C. 1953, § ?122; 71 Del. Laws, c. 176, § ?32;