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Deeds enrolled in the courts of the counties where the lands lie, may,

in like manner, be transmitted to, and enrolled in, the general court

— 1785, ch. 9, sec. 6, ........

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When a deed is enrolled in a county court, the clerk shall enter in a

record book the substance of suc|i deed, to wit, the date, names, &c.

and shall note the day of the enrolment, and sign his name thereto

—1785, ch. 9, sec. 7, .........

194

A copy of such record entry to be transmit led annually in May to the

clerk of the general court, to be recorded, and the transcript to be

safely kept— 1785, ch. 9, sec. 7, .......

194

Allowance to the clerks for such transcript — 1785, ch. 9, sec. 7,

194

If an original deed, and the record thereof at length, is lost or de-

stroyed, such record entries, or copies of them, shall be admitted

in evidence — 1785, ch. 9, sec. 7, ......

194

The judges of the general court may admit such evidence although the

original deed or the record thereof at length may not be lost or de-

stroyed, in all cases where they shall be of opinion, from the cir-

cumstances, Sec. that it is not necessary to have the deed at length

— 1785, ch. 9, sec. 7, .........

194

But no such record entry, or copy thereof, shall be admitted as evi-

dence, if the party to be affected by it, shall give the other notice, a

term before the trial, to produce the original deed, or a full copy —

1785, ch. 9, sec. 7, .........

194

Provision for the recording of deeds by the decree of the chancellor,

which had been or might be executed, and not recorded — 1785, ch.

72, sec. 11, p. 213 ; Nov. 1792, ch. 41, sec. 3, . .

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For the recording such deeds where the parlies making them, or their

representatives, &c. live out of the state — 1791, ch. 79, sec. 2, 3,

p. 283; 1831, ch. 304, ........

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Any person seized of an estate tail in possession, remainder or rever-

sion, may convey the same in the manner in which persons seized

of estates, in fee simple may convey — Nov. 1782, ch. 23, sec. 2, .

181

Conveyances of lands within the said territory of Columbia, recorded

agreeably to the act of 1791, ch.45, by the clerk therein mentioned,

shall be as valid as if recorded in the manner prescribed by law

before the passage of the said act — Nov. 1792, ch. 59, sec. 2,

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Manner of compelling a conveyance from infants, idiots, etc. of lands

mortgaged, charged with the payment of money or tobacco, and

liable to a decree for sale, or bound by agreement to convey — Nov.

1773, ch. 7, sec. 1,2, 3, ........

121

Such infants, &,c. to be bound by conveyances made in such cases by

their guardians — Oct. 1778, ch. 22, sec. 1, 2, 4, .

144

Such conveyances before made by the said guardians declared valid —

Oct. 1778, ch. 22, sec. 3, . . . .

145

Directions respecting suits in chancery against persons residing out of

the state to compel a conveyance — April, 1787, ch. 30, sec. 2, 3, .

244

Conveyances by guardians, trustees or committees, under a decree for

partition, declared to be valid— 1794, ch. 60, sec. 8, ...

318