LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1831.

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not exceed one thousand dollars, under and by virtue of two
or more writs of execution, it shall be deemed a compliance with
the act, to which this is a supplement, to make up the record
only of the elder of said judgments, and of the writs of execu-
tion thereon, and sale under said writ, and that of each of the
other said judgments there shall be recorded only a short copy,
and of the writs of execution thereon respectively, only the

short copies
of others
directed.

docket entries : Provided always, that it shall be the duty of the
clerk, when required by any purchaser, his heirs, executors,
administrators or assigns, to record any other judgment or judg-
ments, or writ of execution, and return under which the said
sale may have been made.

Proviso.

CHAPTER 304.
AN ACT relating to Recording Deeds.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That if
at the time of the passage of this act, or at any time hereafter, any
deeds or convey an ces, except deeds or conveyances by way of
mortgage of or relating to land, duly acknowledged and required
by law to be recorded, shall not have been recorded within the
time prescribed by law, such deeds or conveyances may, not-
withstanding such omission, be recorded ; and when recorded,
shall have as against the grantors, their heirs, executors, or admi-

Deeds may
at any time
be recorded

nistrators, the same validity and effect as if recorded within the
time aforesaid ; and shall in like manner have such effect and
validity as against all purchasers with notice of such deeds or

Shall be
valid
against the
grantor.

conveyances; and as against all creditors becoming so with
notice aforesaid, and as against all creditors of such grantors, and
of their heirs, who shall become so after the recording aforesaid
of said deeds or conveyances, but as against all creditors afore-
said having become so, without notice aforesaid, antecedently to
the time of the recording aforesaid, the said deeds or conveyances
shall be deemed, and have validity and effect only as contracts
for conveyances or assurance of the estate, interest, or use pur-
ported by such deed or conveyance to be conveyed or assured ;
Provided however, that in all cases where the grantees, their
heirs, executors, or administrators, in such deeds or conveyances,
shall take possession of the lands or tenements purported to be
conveyed or in any wise assured by such deeds or conveyances,

And all
persons
having no-
tice; but
not without
notice.

the said deeds or conveyances shall, after being recorded as
aforesaid, have against all persons whomsoever as from and
after the taking of the possession aforesaid, the same effect and
validity to all intents and purposes, as if they had been recorded
within the proper time as aforesaid ; it being however under-

Possession
gives
validity.

stood, that nothing in this act contained, shall be construed to
repeal or in any wise affect the preferences and priorities, and

Exception.