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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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1830.
CHAP 164
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ed on said deed by the judge before whom it shall be tak-
en, under his hand; and that the clerk or keeper of the
records of the court of which he was judge, shall certify
under his hand and the seal of the court, that he was a
judge of said court at the time of taking said acknowledg-
ment, and that such deed shall be recorded within six ca-
lendar months from the day of its date among the land re-
cords of the county in which such lands, tenements or he-
reditaments, may lie.
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To be valid if
acknowledged
in open court,
&c.
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That every deed for the con-
veyance of any estate or interest in any land lying in this
Mate, which shall he acknowledged by any party thereto
in open court, in any court of record of the United States,
or of any of the states or territories, and certified under the
seal of such court to be so acknowledgment, shall be defin-
ed as good, valid and effectual, as if such acknowledgment
had been made and certified in the manner aforesaid.
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Rights of feme
coverts
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Sec. 3. And be it enacted, Thai no deed executed after
ihc first day of September next, shall be effectual to convey
the interest or estate, or to bar any right or claim of dow-
er of a feme, covert, in or to any lands or tenements lying
in this state, unless the judge or justices of the peace as
the case- may be, before whom the same shall he executed
and acknowledged, shall examine her out of the presence
and hearing of her husband, whether she doth execute and
acknowledge the same freely and voluntarily, and without
being induced to do so by fear or threats of, or ill-usage by
her husband, or by fear of his displeasure, or to that effect,
and unless such feme covert shall sign and seal such deed
before such judge or justices, out of the presence and hear-
ing of her husband, and such judge or justices shall endorse
upon or annex to such (Seed, a certificate under his or their
hands, of such private examination, execution and acknow-
ledgment.
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Deeds of feme
coverts
Proviso
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Sec 4. And be it enacted, That any deed hereafter
signed, sealed and acknowledged as aforesaid, by any feme
covert within the United States, or any territory thereof,
before any judge of a court of law and of record of the
state or territory in which she mav be at the time, or be-
fore any judge of and of the United States courts, and cer-
tified as aforesaid, shall be valid and effectual for the pur-
poses expressed in such deed, and to bar the right or claim
of dower of such feme covert to any lands or tenements
therein specified lying within this state; Provided, that in
all other respects the act of assembly, entitled, An addi-
tional supplement to an act, entitled, An act for quieting
possessions, enrolling conveyances, and securing the es-
tates of purchasers, passed at December session eighteen
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