Section 21. The several recorders of deeds within this Commonwealth heretofore authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds and other writings, shall have power and are hereby authorized to take and certify the separate examination and acknowledgment of any feme covert of or concerning any instrument of writing relating to lands, tenements or hereditaments, as fully and with like force and effect, as any judge or justice of the peace of this Commonwealth might or could do.
Compiler's Note: Section 28 of Act 207 of 2004 provided that any and all references in any other law to a "district justice" or "justice of the peace" shall be deemed to be references to a magisterial district judge.