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APPENDIX.
and hereditaments, made by deed indebted and enrolled since the
said thirteenth day of April one thousand six hundred seventy-four,
or that hereafter shall be so made and enrolled, shall be good
and available in law without livery of seizin. |
* 1674, ch. 74.
Deeds within the
act of 1674, if enrolled,
&c. confirmed;
but if not
enrolled to be void. |
4. AND whereas in the year of our Lord one
thousand six hundred
seventy-four and in the forty-second year of the dominion of
the right honourable Cæcilius Lord Baron of Baltimore, a very
good law was made* whereby it was enacted by his said Lordship,
by and with the advice and consent of the upper and lower
houses of the then general assembly, that no manors, lordships,
lands, tenements and hereditaments whatsoever, within this province,
should alter, pass or change, from one to another, (as by
the said act relation being thereunto had more at large doth appear,)
except the same were acknowledged and enrolled as in the said
law directed, BE IT THEREFORE HEREBY DECLARED AND ENACTED,
by the authority, advice and consent aforesaid, that whatsoever
deed or
deeds, conveyance or conveyances, during the continuance of the
said law, were enrolled by virtue of the said law within the time
therein limited, are and shall be taken and adjudged to be effectual
in law, according to the purport, intent and meaning, of such deed
or deeds, conveyance or conveyances enrolled; and if any deed or
deeds, conveyance or conveyances, made during the continuance
of that act, were sealed and delivered, but not enrolled, according
to the intent of the said law, it is hereby enacted and declared,
that nothing hath passed by such deed or deeds, conveyance or
conveyances, not enrolled as aforesaid, the repeal of the said act
notwithstanding. |
Deeds within the
act of 1692, if enrolled,
&c. confirmed;
but if not
enrolled to be void.
† 1692, ch. 30. |
5. AND whereas at an assembly held at the
city of St. Mary's, on
the tenth day of May, annon domini, one thousand six hundred ninety
and two, in the fourth year of the reign of our late sovereign
Lord and Lady, King William and Queen Mary, of blessed memory,
an act† for the enrollment of conveyances, and securing
the estates of purchasers, was then made, whereby it was enacted,
that no manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, whatsoever,
within this province, shall pass, alter or change, from one to
another, whereby the estate of inheritance or free-hold, &c. shall
take effect, &c. as by the said law, (relation being thereunto had,)
more at large doth appear, except the deed or deeds, conveyance
or conveyances, by which the same were intended to pass, alter or
change, from one to another, were acknowledged and enrolled, as
the said law directs; BE IT HEREBY ENACTED AND DECLARED, by the
authority, advice and consent aforesaid, That whatsoever deed or
deeds, conveyance or conveyances, during the continuance of the
said last mentioned act, were enrolled by virtue thereof, within the
time therein limited, are and shall be taken and adjudged to be effectual
in law, according to the purport, intent and meaning, of
such deed or deeds, conveyance or conveyances, enrolled; and if
any deed or deeds, conveyance or conveyances, made during the
continuance of that act, were sealed and delivered, but not enrolled,
according to the intent of the said law, it is hereby enacted
and declared, that nothing hath passed by such deed or deeds, conveyance
or conveyances, not enrolled as aforesaid, the repeal of
the said act notwithstanding.
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