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of the grantor, shall be construed to pass to the grantee the
whole interest and estate of the grantor in the lands therein
mentioned, unless there be limitations or reservations showing,
by implication or otherwise, a different intent.

13. Every deed of any of the interests or estates mentioned
in the first section of this article shall be recorded within six
months from its date in the county or city in which the land
affected by such deed lies, and where it lies in more than one
county, or in the city of Baltimore and a county, it shall be
recorded in all the counties and the said city in which such land
lies.

14. Every deed of real property, when acknowledged and re-
corded as herein directed, shall take effect as between the parties
thereto from its date.

15. No deed of real property shall be valid for the purpose
of passing title unless acknowledged and recorded as herein
directed.

16. Where there are two or more deeds conveying the same
lands or chattels real, the deed or deeds which shall be first re-
corded according to law shall be preferred, if made bona fide and
upon good and valuable consideration. This section to apply to
all deeds of mortgage, and to all other deeds or conveyances to

the validity of which recording is necessary.

17. When a trustee sells land lying in one county under a
decree passed in another county, the deed shall be recorded in
each county where the land lies, and shall recite so much of the
decree under which the sale was made as will show when and
by what court it was passed, and the names of the parties, and
the appointment of the trustee who made the sale; the city of
Baltimore is to be regarded as a county in the meaning of this
section.

18. If any clerk shall die, and during the interval between his
death and the qualification of his successor, the time for record-
ing any deeds or other written documents required by law to be
recorded in a specific time shall expire, the successor of such
clerk so dying shall record the same at any time within one
month after his qualification—to have the same effect as if such
deed or other document were recorded within the time prescribed