110 LAWS OF MARYLAND.—1766.
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NOVEMBER, 1766.—CHAPTER 10. |
*1704, ch.
16. |
An ACT to repeal part of an act, entitled, *An act for the encouragement
of such persons as shall undertake lo build water mills. |
Part of an
act repealed |
Be it enacted, by the right honourable the Lord Proprietary,
by and with the advice and consent of his lordship's Governor,
and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the autho-
rity of the same. That the act, entitled, An act for the encou-
ragement of such persons as will undertake to build water mills,
and every clause, matter and thing, therein contained, shall be
and do stand hereby repealed, except the last enacting clause
therein that followeth the recital, 'for prevention of the abuse
frequently committed by persons keeping water mills by taking
excessive toll,' together with the said recital; which said recital
and enacting clause, it is hereby declared, shall stand in full
force and virtue. |
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Proviso. |
SEC. 2. Provided always, That such person and persons as
hath or have, before the first day of this present session of
assembly, taken out, obtained or prosecuted, any writ or writs
of ad quod damnum, under or by virtue of the said recited act,
shall have the same benefit and advantage under and by virtue
of the said recited act as if this act were or had not been made,
any thing herein to the contrary notwithstanding.
CHAPTER 14. |
•1715, ch.
47. |
An Additional Supplementary ACT to the act, entitled, *An act for quieting
possessions, enrolling conveyances, and securing the estates of purchasers.
See 1715, ch. 47, and the notes thereunder, where all the acts of assem-
bly regulating the mode of executing and acknowledging deeds are reviewed. |
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Preamble. |
WHEREAS, the act, entitled, An act for quieting possessions,
enrolling conveyances, and securing the estates of purchasers,
in ascertaining a way and method for conveying of manors,
lands, tenements and hereditaments, extends to and regards
only such conveyances as operate by way of bargain and sale;
and the good ends and purposes of the said act are now in
great measure eluded by the frequent use of conveyances by
feoffment, lease and release, confirmation, release, limitation
and declaration of uses, and other modes of conveying: And
whereas a general registry of all deeds and conveyances of
land, would very much tend to the security of creditors and
purchasers, the preservation of titles, and thereby to the ad-
vancement of the value of real estates, and particularly to
prevent abuses and deceits by mortgages, and the purchase of
pretended titles; |
No estate,
&c. to pass,
&c. |
SEC. 2. Be it therefore enacted, by the right honourable the
Lord Proprietary, by and with the advice and consent of his
lordship's Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assem-
bly, and the authority of the same, That after the first day of |
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