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XL. APPENDIX.
II. Be it therefore enacted, by the king's most excellent
majesty, by and with the advice and consent of his majesty's
governor, council and assembly of this province, and the
authority of the same, That all sales, gifts and grants, at any
time before the thirteenth day of April, one thousand six
hundred seventy-four, (and not after,) of any lands, tenements
or hereditaments, within this province, by any person
or persons whatsoever that had right to sell, give or grant
such lands, tenements or hereditaments, made by writing only,
with or without seal, shall for ever hereafter be accounted
good and available in law to bar the heirs of such vendors,
donors or grantors, any error in the form only of such writing
to the contrary notwithstanding.
III. And, forasmuch as divers assignments of patents, written
on the backside of such patent for land, are now worn out,
and also other sales in paper either worn out or quite lost,
for which the purchase money bath been bona fide paid, Be
it further enacted, by the authority, advice and consent aforesaid,
That all sales, gifts or grants, at any time before the said
thirteenth day of April, one thousand six hundred seventy-four,
made by persons that right had as aforesaid, if either
the sale, gift, grant or payment, bona fide, can be proved by
witnesses, such sale, gift or grant, shall forever hereafter be
accounted good and available in law to bar the heirs of such
vendors, donors or grantors, or any person claiming dower
from such vendor, donor or grantor, any law, usage or custom
to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.
IV. And be it further enacted, by the authority, advice and
consent aforesaid, That all sales and grants of any lands
tenements and hereditaments, made by deed indented and enrolled
since the said thirteenth day of April, one thousand six
hundred seventy-four, or that hereafter shall be so made and
enrolled, shall be good and available in law, without livery
of seizen.
V. And, whereas in the year of our Lord one thousand six
hundred seventy-four, and in the forty-second year of the dominion
of the right honourable Cecilius, lord baron of Baltimore,
a very good law was made, whereby it was enacted by
his said lordship, by and with the advice and consent of the
upper and lower houses of the then general assembly, that no
manors, lordships, lands, tenements and hereditaments whatsoever
within this province, should alter, pass or change from
one to another, (as by the said act relation being thereunto had
more at large doth appear,) except the same were acknowledged
and enrolled as in the said law is directed; Be it therefore
hereby declared and enacted, by the authority, advice and
consent aforesaid, That whatsoever deed or deeds, conveyance
or conveyances during the continuance of the said law,
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