CONTRACTS
CONVEYANCES
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INDEX TO THE LAWS.
Made between the master of any
vessel in distress,
and any pilot, shall be void, but the pilot entitled
to a
reasonable reward,
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,
—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 former
court of appeals, or by any chief justice of a district
court,
The chancellor empowered to execute
deeds to purchasers
of Indian lands from the state's agent,
A deed to be made in cases under the
act to direct
descents, where an election has been made by the husband
in right of his wife, and the valuation paid,
Conveyances to be made by the chancellor
to purchasers
of confiscated property,
Deeds, &c. received within the
time limited by law,
since the act of 1804, ch. 55, or to be received, (until
further provision) to be recorded as if received before
that act,
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.
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,
—Copies to be valid, &c. as those from the general
court,
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,
Conveyances to be made by the chancellor
for confiscated
property,
All deeds heretofore made for conveying
or passing
any estate of inheritance or freehold, or declaring or
limitting any use or trust, or conveying 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.
—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,
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,
—Same, as to deeds heretofore made and acknowledged
before two justices of the peace, as if made before
a judge,
—Same as to deeds of bargain and sale heretofore
made and not indented, as if they had been duly indented,
—Provided that in every other respect the said deeds
have been executed, acknowledged and recorded, agreeably
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Session. Ch. S.
1803 63
22
1801
4 5
1805
65 13
1802
45
—— 94
6
—— 100 11
1814 103
1805
10 4
—— 65
20
1806
90 7
1805
65 20
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37
—— 93
99
1807
52 2
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