# Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-7: Sec. 47-7. Conveyances and releases executed outside this state. Exception

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URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_CT_T47_C821_S47-7

## Section

- **Citation:** Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-7
- **Heading:** Sec. 47-7. Conveyances and releases executed outside this state. Exception
- **Jurisdiction:** Connecticut
- **Kind:** Statutes
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** August 14, 2026
- **Source:** Compiled text
- **Location:** Connecticut Code / Title 47 / Chapter 821 / Section 47-7

## Text

(b) No county clerk's certificate or other authenticating certificate is required for such conveyance, mortgage, release, lien or power of attorney to be valid, provided the officer taking the acknowledgment indicated thereon the date, if any, on which his current commission expires.

(c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any conveyance of real estate situated in this state, or any mortgage or release of mortgage or lien upon any real estate situated in this state, executed by a remotely located individual, as defined in section 3-95b , in the conduct of a real estate closing, as defined in section 51-88a .

Deed of land in Connecticut executed in another state before a Connecticut commissioner must be executed and acknowledged according to Connecticut law. 26 C. 381. Cited. 81 C. 541. Deed of Connecticut property properly executed and acknowledged under laws of a foreign state, valid in this state even though not in conformity with Connecticut law; effect of statute limited to curing defects in the form or manner of execution or acknowledgment; this section supplements Sec. 47-5, it does not deal with the nature or extent of the estate which the deed purports to convey. 144 C. 629.

## Nearby sections

- [Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-2 Sec. 47-2. Charitable uses.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_CT_T47_C821_S47-2.md)
- [Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-3 Sec. 47-3. Estate given in fee tail.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_CT_T47_C821_S47-3.md)
- [Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-4 Sec. 47-4. Rule in Shelley's case, and collateral warranties, abolished.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_CT_T47_C821_S47-4.md)
- [Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-5 Sec. 47-5. Requirements re conveyances of land. Conveyance pursuant to power of attorney.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_CT_T47_C821_S47-5.md)
- [Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-5a Sec. 47-5a. Persons before whom acknowledgment may be made.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_CT_T47_C821_S47-5a.md)
- [Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-6 Sec. 47-6. Witnessing and acknowledgment of deeds of corporations and voluntary associations.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_CT_T47_C821_S47-6.md)
- [Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-6a Sec. 47-6a. Foreign business trust authorized to purchase, hold, transmit, make mortgages on, acquire and convey interests in real estate; filing of trust declaration.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_CT_T47_C821_S47-6a.md)
- [Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-6b Sec. 47-6b. Conveyances to nonprofit land-holding organizations.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_CT_T47_C821_S47-6b.md)
- [Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-7 Sec. 47-7. Conveyances and releases executed outside this state. Exception.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_CT_T47_C821_S47-7.md)
- [Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-7a Sec. 47-7a. (Formerly Sec. 47-58a). Rights of aliens re real estate. Validation of real estate transfers to aliens.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_CT_T47_C821_S47-7a.md)
- [Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-10 Sec. 47-10. Conveyance to be recorded. Recorded conveyance not invalid or unenforceable if original documentation converted into digital or electronic form, lost or destroyed.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_CT_T47_C821_S47-10.md)
- [Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-12a Sec. 47-12a. Affidavit of facts relating to title or interest in real estate.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_CT_T47_C821_S47-12a.md)
- [Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-12b Sec. 47-12b. Unlawful restrictive covenants void. Affidavit or form re unlawful restrictive covenants.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_CT_T47_C821_S47-12b.md)
- [Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-13 Sec. 47-13. Conveyance of property acquired prior to change of name.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_CT_T47_C821_S47-13.md)

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