§ 34-8-103 — When defective instruments validated by operation of law

When an instrument of writing, in any manner affecting or
purporting to affect the title to real estate, has been, or may
hereafter be recorded for a period of ten (10) years in the
office of the county clerk of the county wherein such real
estate is situated, and such instrument, or the record thereof,
because of defect, irregularity or omission, fails to comply in
any respect with any statutory requirement or requirements
relating to the execution, attestation, acknowledgment,
certificate of acknowledgment, recording or certificate of
recording, such instrument and the record thereof shall,
notwithstanding any or all such defects, irregularities and
omissions, be fully legal, valid, binding and effectual for all
purposes to the same extent as though such instrument had, in
the first instance, been in all respects duly executed,
attested, and acknowledged and recorded.