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HORATIO SHARPE, Esq; Governor.
such certificate shall be a sufficient warrant for the clerk of such
lands, where
the lands, tenements, and hereditaments aforesaid, do lie, to enrol such
deed or
conveyance, and the endorsements thereon. |
1766.
CHAP.
XIV. |
IV. And if
any person or persons, conveying, limiting, or declaring as aforesaid,
shall not be a resident of this province at the time of the execution of
such deed
or conveyance, so as the same cannot be acknowledged as is before directed,
or enrolled
within the time for that purpose herein before limited, then, and in every
such case, the deed or conveyance shall be acknowledged by letter of attorney,
well
and sufficiently proved, either in the provincial court, or county court
where the
land intended to be conveyed, or the use thereof limited or declared, doth
lie, or
before one justice of the provincial, or two justices of the county court
as aforesaid,
and be enrolled as aforesaid, within six months from the time of such acknowledgment,
any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Grantor, if a
non-resident,
may acknowledge
by attorney. |
V. And be it
further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That every such
writing,
to be acknowledged and enrolled as aforesaid, and every deed of bargain
and
sale of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments whatsoever, hereafter to
be made,
executed, acknowledged and enrolled, shall have relation as to the passing
and conveying
the premises, and the estate thereby intended to be passed or conveyed,
by
and from the day of the date thereof, any thing contained in this present
act, or
any other act or acts to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Deeds of sale
to take effect
from the day
of the date
thereof. |
VI. And be it
further enacted, That any feme cover, not being a minor,
joining
with her husband in any of the several kinds of conveyances herein before
mentioned,
and acknowledging them, or any of them, upon private examination, according
to the directions of the said recited act, where such femes covert have
the right,
title, or interest of the lands, tenements or hereditaments, or any part
thereof, by
such conveyances intended to be given, granted, released, surrendered,
declared,
settled, or otherwise disposed of, shall by such execution of the said
conveyance or
conveyances, examination, acknowledgment and enrollment, be barred and
foreclosed
to all intents and purposes whatsoever, and that such examination, and
acknowledgment,
and enrollment, without her joining in the said deed or conveyance,
shall be good and sufficient to bar any feme covert of her right
of dower:
Provided, That such feme covert,
in both cases be, at the time of such execution,
examination and acknowledgment, of the full age of twenty-one years, of
sound
mind, and out of prison. And where any such feme covert shall
live out of this
province, within any of his majesty's dominions, such examination and acknowledgment
as aforesaid, taken before the mayor of some corporation within Great-Britain
or Ireland, or other of his majesty's European islands, or before one
justice
of the supreme or provincial court of any province or colony, or governor
or chief
officer within any of his majesty's dominions, and certified by endorsement
on the
deed or conveyance, by such mayor or justice, under his hand and seal of
the corporation,
when taken before a mayor, or the seal of the province or colony, governor
or chief officer, when taken before such justice, governor or chief officer,
shall be as good and effectual in law for barring such feme covert of
her right of
dower, inheritance, as the case may be, as if the same examination and
acknowledgment
were taken and certified within this province, according to the directions
of the said recited act, any thing therein, or in any other act, law, usage
or custom,
to the contrary, notwithstanding. |
Proviso for
feme covert.
How to be
examined.
Barred of
dower.
Feme covert,
non-resident,
how her examination
and
acknowledgment
is to be
taken and
certified. |
CHAP. XV.
An ACT to ease the inhabitants of this province, and to empower the
justices of
the several counties to bind out the persons therein
mentioned, apprentices.
To continue three years, &c.
It was afterwards continued for three years, &c. by the act of 1769,
ch.
3, and for seven years by the act of June, 1773, ch.
2. At length it expired with October session, 1780. |
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CHAP. XVI.
An ACT for the speedy and effectual publication of the laws of this
province, and
for the encouragement of Jonas Green, of the city of
Annapolis, printer. |
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