Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-5
Name of Owner of Record
By: (Signature of Agent) L.S.
Name of Signatory
His/Her Agent
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-5
(1949 Rev., S. 7085; P.A. 75-309, S. 3; P.A. 79-602, S. 1; P.A. 87-265; P.A. 96-77, S. 16; P.A. 05-288, S. 160; P.A. 06-196, S. 176; P.A. 11-206, S. 1; P.A. 13-87, S. 1; P.A. 15-240, S. 50; P.A. 16-40, S. 9.)
When an unacknowledged deed is admissible in evidence. 3 D. 500; 3 C. 398. What defect in certificate of acknowledgment is fatal. 2 C. 527; 3 C. 406; 11 C. 129. Whether a deed attested by only one witness was valid under the colony laws of 1672. 3 C. 35. The acknowledgment cannot be proved by parol. Id., 406; 11 Conn. 129. When chancery will supply defects in attestation. 4 C. 344; 5 C. 468; 8 C. 549. Cancellation of a deed, duly executed and delivered, does not revest the title. 4 C. 550; 5 Conn. 86, 262. Record of deed, defectively attested, not constructive notice. 5 Conn. 468; 87 C. 369. General agent of manufacturing company cannot execute deed of company's real estate. 7 C. 214. Material alteration makes a new attestation necessary. 8 C. 289. Corporation may by vote, without power of attorney, empower agent to convey its real estate; such agent must affix corporate seal to deed. Id., 191; 27 C. 538. Signature must be made by party's own hand. 13 C. 192. Vote of corporation authorizing execution of deed need not be under corporate seal nor recorded with deed. 14 C. 594. Witnesses must be disinterested. 26 C. 195. When "personally appeared ... signer and sealer", etc., a sufficient acknowledgment. 30 C. 344. Unsigned recorded mortgage absolutely void. 44 C. 321. In equity, an absolute deed can by parol be proved to be a mortgage. 72 C. 720; 74 C. 252; 79 C. 340; 85 C. 46; 89 C. 178; 93 C. 66. Acknowledgment taken by agent of grantee. 77 C. 276. Deed conveys title but does not purport to express agreement of parties; counterclaim for deficiency in acreage. 97 C. 350. Delivery and acceptance necessary; leaving with maker's own attorney is inoperative where no instructions given; requisites for valid gift inter vivos. Id., 483. Applies, by reference, to chattel mortgages. 105 C. 772. Effect of validating acts. 109 C. 312. The attestation clause of a deed which is in the possession of the grantee is prima facie proof of delivery. 146 C. 307. In proceeding to set aside a conveyance, the burden of proof on issue of undue influence rests on the one alleging it, except when it appears that a stranger, holding toward the grantor a relationship of trust and confidence, is the principal beneficiary to the exclusion of others who are the natural objects of grantor's bounty. 147 C. 474. Agreement to divide money representing income from property or proceeds from its sale was a contract and not a conveyance of land and it was not necessary it be executed in accordance with section. 156 C. 12. Cited. 207 C. 555; 218 C. 512; 232 C. 645. Cited. 5 CA 435; 31 CA 1. Section does not indicate that a flaw in the instrument or its recordation would make it inadmissible as evidence; when read together with Sec. 47-10, indicates that only when a natural person attempts to convey property through a power of attorney must the instrument creating the power be filed with the conveyance, or have been previously filed, to have legal effect. 51 CA 733. Deed was invalid because it lacked the signature of two witnesses. 87 CA 337. A restrictive covenant and zoning restrictions are two entirely separate and unrelated limitations on the use of property; where the deeds to all the lots sold under a general development scheme contain the same restrictive covenants, each grantee is entitled to enforce them in the absence of conduct on his part constituting laches, waiver or abandonment. 22 CS 235. Where an owner of land causes a map to be made of it showing separate lots, and parks or other open areas and then sells the lots, referring in his conveyances to the map, the lot owners acquire the right to have the parks thereafter kept open for use in connection with their lands. Id., 499. A purchase of property in the name of a husband by money supplied by his wife raises a rebuttable presumption of a gift. 23 CS 1. Restrictive covenants are to be narrowly construed and are not to be extended by implication. Id., 89. Cited. Id., 298. A reservation or other restriction in a deed is the proper subject of an action for a declaratory judgment; reservation should be construed so as to confer a practical right and will include by implication that which is necessary to the reasonable enjoyment of the thing reserved, so long as it is not contrary to ascertained intent of parties. Id, 486. Cited. 30 CS 56; 41 CS 225. Subsec. (a): Cited. 221 C. 77. Cited. 38 CA 639. Lack of adherence to the formalities in Subsec. rendered the subject deed of conveyance voidable, but not void; in the case of the subject deed, where plaintiff gave permission to or granted authority to his father to sign his name on the deed, plaintiff waived directive of Subsec. 67 CA 447. A grantor or a grantee of a deed cannot act as one of the two attesting witnesses required for the conveyance of property because allowing the parties to act as witnesses would negate the purpose of the witness requirement. 134 CA 265.
See chapter 821a re forms of deeds and mortgages. See Sec. 7-34a re recording fees.