CONVEYANCES
CONVICTION
CONVICTS
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INDEX TO THE LAWS.
Not to affect the cases of sales, &c. therein mentioned,
Conveyances by persons with a view
of becoming insolvent,
&c. and with intent to give an undue preference,
declared void,
Conveyances directed in cases of sales
by succeeding
sheriffs, &c. of property taken where the sheriff
hath
died before sale,
Where persons conveying land, &c.
shall be out of the
state, the acknowledgment may be in the manner heretofore
practised by law, or by letter of attorney,
Manner of proof of the letter of attorney,
To be recorded with the deed,
Deeds for lands lying partly in one
county and partly
in another, having been duly recorded in one, to have
the same effect as if recorded in both,
Not to affect any suit then pending,
All deeds heretofore made for any
state, &c. acknowledged
by femes covert, wherein it appears by the certificate
that the same were made by such femes covert on
private examination, or out of the presence and hearing
of their husbands, declared valid, &c.
Not to affect the decision of any suit then depending,
or any case wherein judgment had been obtained,
or where a person having executed such defective deed,
or those claiming under him, were then in possession,
When it shall appear that there has been surprise,
or mistake, or fraud, in obtaining such deed or acknowledgment,
this law shall not operate to make a
good deed,
In cases of sales by collectors of
the county tax, and
their dying or removing without making a deed, or refusing
so to do, the commissioners of the tax, on application,
to order the collector for the time being to make
such conveyance,
On the death of any county clerk,
leaving in his
office any deed, &c. not recorded in the record books,
it shall be the duty of the clerk for the time being
to
record the same, as of the day they shall appear by
endorsement to have been received for recording,
The clerk so recording shall affix the name of the
clerk who received the same, and his own, and the
deed, &c. so recorded, shall be of the same force
and
effect as if duly recorded on the day they were received,
The clerk so recording to have the same fees as
for similar services, and not bound to record the deed,
&c. till the fees are secured,
Fees therefor having been paid to the deceased
clerk may be recovered, (as small debts,) from his executor,
&c.
No deed of conveyance shall be good
and available
in law, unless the same be recorded in the records of
the county court where the lands, &c. do lie, within
the time required by law,
The mayor of the city of Annapolis
may take the
acknowledgment of any deed or instrument of writing,
as fully as if taken by any one or two justices of the
peace of Anne-Arundel county,
No conviction shall work corruption
of blood, or forfeiture
of estate,
Every commander of a vessel convicted
of wilfully
importing from any foreign country any convict, &c.
to be confined in the penitentiary not less than 1 nor
more than 5 years, |
Session. Ch. S.
1809 164
2
1812
77 1
1813 102
4
104
1
2
3
4
1815
71
171
1816 119
1
2-3
3
1818 104
194 12
1809 138 10
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