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Wash. Rev. Code § 64.08.050 (2026)

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The officer, or person, taking an acknowledgment as in this chapter provided, shall certify the same by a certificate written upon or annexed to the instrument acknowledged and signed by him or her and sealed with his or her official seal, if any, and reciting in substance that the person, or persons, known to him or her as, or determined by satisfactory evidence to be, the person, or persons, whose name, or names, are signed to the instrument as executing the same, acknowledged before him or her on the date stated in the certificate that he, she, or they, executed the same freely and voluntarily. Such certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein recited. The officer or person taking the acknowledgment has satisfactory evidence that a person is the person whose name is signed on the instrument if that person: (1) Is personally known to the officer or person taking the acknowledgment; (2) is identified upon the oath or affirmation of a credible witness personally known to the officer or person taking the acknowledgment; or (3) is identified on the basis of identification documents.
[ 1988 c 69 s 1; 1929 c 33 s 6; RRS ss 10564, 10565. Prior: Code 1881 ss 2320, 2321; 1879 p 158 ss 2, 3.]
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Cited in 14 cases, 1956–2017 · leading case: Williams v. Athletic Field, Inc., 261 P.3d 109 (Wash. 2011).
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Williams v. Athletic Field, Inc., 261 P.3d 109 (Wash. 2011). · cites it 4× “RCW 64.08.050. RCW 60.04.091(2) also includes a sample claim of lien that the statute states “shall be sufficient” but that does not include language satisfying the acknowledgment requirement.”
W. Plaza, LLC v. Tison, 364 P.3d 76 (Wash. 2015). · cites it 2× “It requires an authorized, uninterested third party to certify that the person to be bound by a contract is (1) the person who actually signs it and (2) entering the contract “freely and voluntarily.”
Stiley v. Block, 925 P.2d 194 (Wash. 1996). “RCW 64.08.050. Id. Meyers v. Meyers, 81 Wn.”
OneWest Bank, FSB v. Erickson, 367 P.3d 1063 (Wash. 2016). “[is] signed to the instrument as executing the *70 same, acknowledged before him or her on the date stated in the certificate that he, she, or they, executed the same freely and voluntarily RCW 64.08.050 (emphasis added). Erickson relies on the emphasized language to claim that…”
Meyers v. Meyers, 503 P.2d 59 (Wash. 1972). · cites it 3× ““The manner in which deeds are to be acknowledged is prescribed in RCW 64.08.050, which provides: “The officer, or person, taking an acknowledgment as in this act provided, shall certify the same by a certificate written upon or annexed to the instrument acknowledged and signed…”
Werner v. Werner, 526 P.2d 370 (Wash. 1974). “020; RCW 64.08.050. As public officers, notaries enjoy a unique status within our legal system as the notarial seal is a mandatory legal prerequisite to the valid execution of many documents.”
State v. Fernandez, 628 P.2d 818 (Wash. Ct. App. 1981). “4 Exhibit 15, a notarized power of attorney, complies with the requirements of RCW 64.08.050 and would be admissible pursuant to ER 902(h).”
Pearson v. Schubach, 763 P.2d 834 (Wash. Ct. App. 1988). “" While the notary does use those terms pursuant to the statutory language of RCW 64.08.050, they are only prima facie evidence of the voluntariness of the act; it is not a conclusive presumption.”
Meyers v. Meyers, 491 P.2d 253 (Wash. Ct. App. 1971). · cites it 2× “The manner in which deeds are to be acknowledged is prescribed in RCW 64.08.050, which provides: *832 The officer, or person, taking an acknowledgment as in this act provided, shall certify the same by a certificate written upon or annexed to the instrument acknowledged and…”
Haggen v. Burns, 295 P.2d 725 (Wash. 1956). “RCW 64.08.050], provide: “§ 10564. The officer, or person, taking an acknowledgment as in this act provided, shall certify the same by a certificate written upon or annexed to the instrument acknowledged and signed by him and sealed with his official seal, if any he has, and…”
W. Plaza, LLC v. Tison (Wash. 2015). · cites it 2× “" RCW 64.08.050 (emphasis added). Finally, the preprinted lease form in this case did not include any terms over one year, and even if it did, an industry cannot override legislation by simply ignoring it in practice.”
Stiley v. Block, 925 P.2d 194 (Wash. 1996). “[89] RCW 64.08.050. [90] Id. [91] Meyers v. Meyers, 81 Wash.”
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