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582 LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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CHAPTER 325.
AN ACT to provide for giving effect to Informal
or Invalid Deeds.
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Deed or bill
of sale.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That whenever .any deed or bill of
sale shall have been duly signed and sealed by the
parties thereto, but shall not have been acknowl-
edged by the said parties, or any one of them, in
the manner or form, or before the person author-
ized to take such act or acknowledgment, the Cir-
cuit Court of a county in which, by law, the said
deed or bill of sale ought to be or to have been
recorded, or the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, if
the said deed or bill of sale ought, by law to be or
to have been recorded in said city, may, upon the
petition of any party to said deed or bill of sale,
or his or their assigns, or any person claiming,
under them, setting forth the defects in the ac-
knowledgment of said deed or bill of sale, pass an
order directing the other parties thereto to appear
and answer the said petition, and may cause no-
tice to be given to such parties, by summons or
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Testimony
taken.
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publication, according to the practice of the said
court, and may direct testimony to be taken in re-
lation to the matters in said petition, or in said
petition and answer contained ; and the said court
may grant relief upon said petition by directing
the said parties, or any of them, to acknowledge
or to re-acknowledge the said deed or bill of sale,
as the case may require ; and the order of the said
court, passed in the premises, directing the said
acknowledgment to be made as aforesaid, shall
operate in the same manner and to the same ex-
tent, from the date of the said order, as if the said
party, ordered as aforesaid to acknowledge or re-
acknowledge the said deed or bill of sale, had
thereupon so done ; provided, however, that the
rights of any person who shall not be a party to
said proceedings, as aforesaid, shall not be in any
wise affected by said order.
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I n force.
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Sec. 2, And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from its passage.
Approved March 30, 1868.
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