PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.

2571

Page.

All acknowledgments of deeds thereafter made for the conveyance of

land, before any chief justice of a district, within his district, or

any associate justice within his county, declared to be as good and

valid in law as if made before any judge of the general court, or

two justices of the peace — 1801, ch. 74, sec. 5, .

459

Each of the judges shall out of court, have, use and exercise, all and

singular the power, jurisdiction and authority, that might or could

have been done by any judge of the late general court, of the for-

mer court of appeals, or by any chief justice of a district court —

1805, ch. 65, sec. 13, .........

503

Conveyances to be made by the chancellor to purchasers of confiscated

property— 1802, ch. 100, see. 11, p. 470; 1814, ch. 103,

628

Extracts of deeds that were by law transmitted to the late general

court, to be transmitted to the clerks of the court of appeals, and

recorded, &c. — 1805, ch. 65, sec. 20, ......

604

The county clerks to include in all extracts of deeds where part of a

tract of land is conveyed, the courses of the land expressed in the

conveyance — 1806, ch. 90, sec. 7, ......

546

Copies to be valid, &c. as those from the general court — 1805, ch. 65,

sec. 20, ...........

504

All deeds for land, &c. executed or acknowledged since the 30th of

November, 1805, or that should be before the 1st of March, 1806,

before any judge of the general court, chief justice, or one or more

associate justices, to have the same effect as if the court had not

been abolished — 1805, ch. 65, sec. 37, .....

506

Conveyances to be made by the chancellor for confiscated property —

1805, ch. 93, p. 513 ; ch. 99, . .... . .

527

All deeds heretofore made for conveying or passing any estate of inhe-

ritance or freehold, or declaring or limiting any use or trust, or con-

veying any estates for above seven years, and all acknowledgments

of a release or relinquishment of a right of dower of lands, &c. by

feme coverts, in which the precise form prescribed by law has not

been observed, declared valid, as if in the precise form, &c. — 1807,

ch. 52, sec. 2, ..........

549

Provided it shall appear by such acknowledgment that the same was

made willingly, and out of the presence or hearing of her husband,

or words to that effect — 1807, ch. 52, sec. 2, ....

549

A similar provision as to deeds heretofore made and acknowledged by

power of attorney, in which the acknowledgment is made by the

attorney in his own name — 1807, ch. 52, sec. 2, .

649

Same as to deeds heretofore made and acknowledged before two jus-

tices of the peace, as if made before a judge — 1807, ch. 52, sec. 2,

549

Same as to deeds of bargain and sale heretofore made and not indented,

as if they had been duly indented — 1807, ch. 52, sec. 2,

549

Provided that in every other respect the said deeds have been executed,

acknowledged and recorded, agreeably to the laws — 1807, ch. 52,

sec. 2, ...........

549

Any two justices of the peace within their own county, shall have the

same power and authority to take the acknowledgments of deeds