If the office of any county clerk has been vacated, leaving therein any instrument unrecorded, which from an official endorsement thereon appears to have been acknowledged or proved in part, his successor may receive the complete acknowledgment and record the same, stating the facts in his certificate. If any such instrument appears to have been acknowledged or proved ready for record, or to have been acknowledged or proved before another officer, and certified according to law, and lodged in his office for record, or is produced to his successor for record, the successor of such clerk shall record the instrument, making his certificate conform to the facts.
Effective: October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky.
Stat. sec. 510.