MS HB723

Amends Mississippi Code to revise acknowledgment requirements for instruments pertaining to real property, adding a new standardized acknowledgment form (subsection h) for any business organization, foreign or domestic, executing documents in a representative capacity

Requires all instruments concerning the sale of lands or conveyance of personal estate to be acknowledged or proved and certified by a competent officer before recording, with exceptions for Uniform Commercial Code transactions

Authorizes clerk's offices to refuse recording of instruments that lack proper acknowledgment, while clarifying that improperly acknowledged instruments that are nonetheless recorded still provide constructive notice to all persons

Applies the constructive notice provisions to all instruments recorded on or after July 1, 2011, while preserving priority rules for conflicting real property claims established before that date

Effective date of July 1, 2011