LAWS OF MARYLAND.—1766. 111
May next, no estate of inheritance or freehold or any declaration
or limitation of use, or any estate for above seven years, shall
pass or take effect, except the deed or conveyance by which
the same shall be intended to pass or take effect, shall be ac-
knowledged in the provincial court, or before one of the jus-
tices thereof in the county court, or before two justices of the
same county where the lands, tenements or hereditaments,
conveyed by such deed or conveyance do lie, and be also
enrolled in the records of the same county, or the provincial
court, as the case may be, within six months after the date of
such deed or conveyance; and, for the taking which acknow-
ledgment there shall be paid to the party or parties taking the
same, the sum of one shilling, and no more; and the clerk of
the provincial, or county courts, shall, immediately upon the
receipt of such deed or conveyance endorse thereon the time of
his receiving the same, and shall well and. truly, in a fair, full
and legible hand-writing, enrol such deed or conveyance in a
good sufficient book in folio, to be regularly alphabeted in the
names of all and every of the parties to the same, and the name
of the land, and quantity of acres, which book shall remain in
the custody of the said clerk of the said provincial, or county
court; and the clerk aforesaid shall, on the back of every such
deed or conveyance, in a full legible hand, make a certificate of
such enrolment, and the time of making it, and also of the folio
of the book in which the same shall be enrolled, and shall to
such certificate set his hand.
By 1797, ch. 103, an acknowledgment that the lands. Sic. are the right or
estate of the grantee, &c. or an acknowledgment tantamount thereto, or in
any words declaratory of the intention of the grantor to convey to the gran-
tee, &c. shall be as available as if the grantor had acknowledged the said
instrument to be his act and deed.
By 1796, ch 43, deeds may be acknowledged before a chief justice of a
district in his district, or an associate justice within his county.
By 1785, ch. 9, deeds acknowledged before a judge of the general court
may be enrolled in the general court, or in the county where the lands lie,
and deeds acknowledged in the county where the lands lie, may be enrolled
in the records of the said county, or in the general court.
By November 1779, ch. 10, the six months are to be calendar months. |
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SEC. 3. Provided always, and be it enacted, That when the
person or persons making any deed or conveyance for convey-
ing or declaring or limiting any use in or for any lands, tene-
ments or hereditaments, shall live remote from the provincial
court, or out of the county where the lands, tenements or here-
ditaments lie, it shall and may be lawful for such person or per-
sons to acknowledge the same in the county court of the said
county, or before two justices of the said county wherein he,
she or they shall reside; and a certificate of such acknowledg-
ment, under the hand of the county clerk, and under the seal |
Proviso. |
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