| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
lands, tenements or hereditaments, lying and being within this
state, hath been or shall be acknowledged by the husband of such
feme covert before a judge or justice of a court of any one of the
former provinces, or of the present United States, or of the territories
thereof, or before any other person or persons authorised by
law to take the acknowledgment of a nonresident feme covert, and
such deed, conveyance, or instrument of writing, hath been or
shall be acknowledged by such feme covert in the form prescribed
by law, then and in such case, every such deed, conveyance, or instrument
of writing, shall be of the same force and effect, to pass,
convey and transfer, to the bargainee or bargainees, grantee or
grantees, or donee or donees, therein named, the right, title, interest
and estate, thereby intended to be passed, conveyed and transferred,
of, in and to, the lands, tenements or hereditaments, therein
mentioned, in the same manner as if such deed, conveyance or
instrument of writing, had been acknowledged by the husband and
feme covert in the manner required by law, provided such deed,
conveyance or instrument of writing, hath been or shall be recorded
within the time and in the manner required by law.
By 1818, ch. 104, no deed shall be
good unless it be recorded in the records of
the county court where the lands conveyed do lie, within the time prescribed
by
law. |
1816.
CHAP. 164. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That a copy of any such
deed, conveyance,
or instrument of writing, acknowledged and recorded in
the manner provided by this act, and of the acknowledgement thereof,
and the endorsement thereon certified, under the seal of office,
where the same is or shall be recorded, shall be evidence of the
said deed, conveyance, or instrument of writing, and of the execution,
acknowledgment, and recording thereof, as fully for all purposes
as copies so certified are evidence in case of deeds, conveyances
or instruments of writing, acknowledged and duly recorded
in the manner provided by law. |
Copies of the same
to be evidence. |
3. PROVIDED ALWAYS, AND BE IT ENACTED, That
nothing in
this act contained shall affect or be construed to extend, to any
case where any land may have been actually recovered, and possession
received by due course of law in opposition to any deed or
conveyance which, before the passing of this act, was defective, or
where the person or persons claiming independent of, and in opposition
to, any such defective deed or conveyance, and in the actual
possession of the property so claimed, shall have sold such property
to a bona fide purchaser for a valuable consideration, and without
actual notice of such deed or conveyance; And provided also,
that this act shall not be construed to affect any compromise or
agreement made between any person or persons claiming under
such defective deed or conveyance, and the person or persons
claiming in opposition to it. |
Not to extend to
cases which lands
have been recovered
in opposition to
any deed which
was defective, &c.
Proviso. |
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CHAP. CLXV.
An Act to shut up an old Road in Cecil County. Lib. TH.
No. 5, fol.
307. |
Passed Feb. 1, 1817. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the old post road running from Gray's Hill to the Delaware line,
and lying north of the turnpike road leading from Elkton to Christiana,
be and the same is hereby shut up, any law to the contrary
notwithstanding. |
Road to be shut up. |
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