LAWS OF MARYLAND.—1715. 37
of such deed or deeds, conveyance or conveyances, enrolled;
and if any deed or deeds, conveyance or conveyances, made
during the continuance of that act, were sealed and delivered,
but not enrolled according to the intent of the said law, It is
hereby enacted and declared, That nothing has passed by such
deed or deeds, conveyance or conveyances, not enrolled as
aforesaid, the repeal of the said act notwithstanding. |
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SEC. 7. And, whereas at a session of assembly, begun and
held at the port of Annapolis the twenty-seventh day of June,
and ended the twenty-second day of July, in the eleventh year
of the reign of our late sovereign lord king William the third,
anno domini one thousand six hundred ninety-nine, an act for
enrolling of conveyances, and securing the estates of pur-
chasers, was made, whereby, for the better establishing a way
and method of conveying of manors, lands, tenements and
hereditaments, and for avoiding the abuses and deceits by
mortgages, it was enacted by the king's most excellent majesty,
by and with the advice and consent of the same assembly, and
the authority of the same, that no manors, lands, tenements or
hereditaments whatsoever, within this province, should pass,
alter or change, from one to another, whereby the estate of
inheritance or free-hold, or any estate for above seven years,
should be made to take effect, &c. as by the said act, relation
being thereunto had more at large doth appear, except the deed
or deeds, conveyance or conveyances, by which the same could
be intended to pass, &c. were acknowledged and enrolled, as
the law directs; Be it hereby enacted and declared, That what-
soever deed or deeds, conveyance or conveyances, made during
the continuance of the said law, were enrolled by virtue of the
said law within the time therein limited, are and shall be taken
and adjudged to be effectual in law, according to the purport,
intent and meaning of such deed or deeds, conveyance or con-
veyances, enrolled ; and if any deed or deeds, conveyance or
conveyances, made during the continuance of that act, were
sealed and delivered, but not enrolled according to the intent of
the said law, It is hereby enacted and declared. That nothing
hath passed by such deed or deeds, conveyance or conveyances,
not enrolled as aforesaid, the repeal of the said act notwith-
standing. |
Convey-
ances
adjudged
good, &c. |
SEC. 8. And, for the better ascertaining a way and method
for conveying of manors, lands, tenements and hereditaments
for the future, and for the avoiding abuses and deceits by mort-
gages, Be it enacted, by the King's most excellent majesty, by
and with the advice and consent aforesaid, That from and after
the publication hereof no manors, lands, tenements or heredita-
ments whatsoever, within this province, shall pass, alter or
change, from one to another) whereby the estate of inheritance |
Method of
conveying
ascertained,
&c. |
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