§ 332-b. The record of certain other conveyances validated. 1. The
record made subsequent to February thirteenth, nineteen hundred forty
and prior to the time this section shall take effect in the office of
the recording officer of any county in this state of any deed, mortgage,
assignment or satisfaction piece of a mortgage, or other conveyance or
power of attorney, otherwise authorized to be recorded therein,
notwithstanding any defect in the form of the certificate of
acknowledgment or proof or the failure to append thereto a certificate
as to the authority of the person who took the acknowledgment or proof,
to take the same, or any defect in the form of such certificate of
authority, shall be in all respects as valid and effectual as though
such certificate of acknowledgment or proof or certificate of authority
had been in proper form or such certificate of authority had been
appended to such instrument. Provided only that such person was duly
authorized at the time of taking the proof or acknowledgment to take the
same in the county where the instrument is recorded or in the place,
whether within or without the United States, where the same was taken.

2. Nothing in this section shall affect any pending action or
proceeding nor the rights of any purchaser in good faith and for a
valuable consideration whose conveyance shall have been duly recorded
before this section shall take effect.