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APPENDIX.
MARYLAND, sc.
At a Session of Assembly, begun and held at the Town and
Port of Annapolis, in Anne-Arundel county, the fifth
day
of September, and ended the third day of October, in
the
third year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Anne,
by
the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and
Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c.
Annoque
Domini one thousand seven hundred and four,
HIS EXCELLENCY
JOHN SEYMOUR, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
AMONGST OTHERS THE FOLLOWING LAWS WERE ENACTED, TO
WIT:
CHAP. XXIV.
An act for Quieting of Possessions, Enrolling Conveyances, and securing
the
Estates of Purchasers. Lib. LL. No. 3, fol. 50.
A new law made, 1715, ch. 44. |
1704. |
FORASMUCH as a good and beneficial law*, entitled,
An act
for quieting of possessions, was made the twenty-seventh day of
March, Anno Domini one thousand six hundred seventy and one,
in this province, which by the use thereof hath been found very
much conducing to the benefit of the said province; |
* 1671, ch. 6. |
1. BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED, by the Queen's
Most excellent Majesty,
by and with the advice and consent of her Majesty's Governor,
Council and Assembly of this Province, and the authority of the
same, That all sales, gifts and grants, at any time before the
thirteenth day of April one thousand six hundred seventy and
four, (and not after) of any lands, tenements or hereditaments,
within this province, by any person or persons whatsoever, that
had right to sell, give or grant, such lands, tenements or hereditaments,
made by writing only, with or without seal, shall forever
hereafter be accounted good and available in law to bar the heirs
of such vendors, donors or grantors, any error in the form only of
such writing to the contrary notwithstanding. |
The act of 1671
approved, and all
sales, &c. before
the 13th of April
1674, confirmed. |
2. AND forasmuch as divers assignments of
patents, written on
the backside of such patent, for land, are now worn out, and also
other sales in paper either worn out or quite lost, for which the
purchase money had been bona fide paid, BE IT FURTHER ENACTED
by the authority, advice and consent aforesaid, That all sales,
gifts,
or grants, at any time before the said thirteenth day of April one
thousand six hundred seventy-four, made by persons that right
had as aforesaid, if either the sale, gift, grant, or payment, bona
fide, can be proved by witnesses, such sale, gift or grant, shall
forever hereafter be accounted good and available in law to bar the
heirs of such vendors, donors or grantors, or any person claiming
dower from such vendor or donor, or grantor, any law, usage or
custom, to the contrary hereof notwithstanding. |
Sales, &c. before
the 13th of April
1674, without writing,
to be valid,
if either the sales,
&c. or consideration
paid, be proved
by witnesses. |
3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, by the authority,
advice and
consent aforesaid, That all sales and grants of any lands, tenements |
Sales, &c. made
by deed indented. |
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