Colorado Code § 38-30-128

Prima facie validity of prior foreign acknowledgments
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All deeds and
other instruments in writing relating to real estate in this state which have been executed prior to
April 23, 1909, purporting to have been acknowledged or proved out of this state before any
judge, or clerk, or deputy clerk of any court of record of any foreign kingdom, empire, republic,
state, principality, province, colony, island possession, or bailiwick certifying the
acknowledgment under the seal of such court, or purporting to have been acknowledged or
proved before the chief magistrate or other chief executive or chief officer of any province,
colony, island possession, or bailiwick of such foreign kingdom, empire, republic, state, or
principality, such chief magistrate or other chief officer of any such colony, island possession, or
bailiwick certifying the same under the seal of such colony, island possession, or bailiwick; or
purporting to have been acknowledged or proved before a notary public having a seal, or before
the mayor or other chief executive officers of any city, town, borough, county, or municipal
corporation having a seal, of any such foreign kingdom, empire, republic, state, principality,
province, colony, island possession, or bailiwick, such mayor or other chief officer certifying
such acknowledgment under such seal; or purporting to have been acknowledged or proved out
of this state and within any such kingdom, empire, republic, state, principality, province, colony,
island possession, or bailiwick, before any ambassador, minister, consul, vice-consul, consular
agent, vice-consular agent, charge d'affaires, commercial agent, vice-commercial agent, or any
diplomatic, consular, or commercial agent or representative, or any deputy of any thereof, of the
United States or of any other government or country, appointed to reside in the foreign country
or place where the proof or acknowledgment is made, certifying the same under the seal of his
office, shall be deemed prima facie to have been acknowledged or proved before proper officers,
and such deeds or other instrument in writing, and in case of the loss of the originals, a copy of
the record thereof, and of the certificate of the acknowledgment or proof appertaining to the
same, shall be received as prima facie evidence of the execution and acknowledgment thereof,
anything in the statutes of this state to the contrary notwithstanding.

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