1831.

LAWS OF MARYLAND,

CHAP. 304.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted. That annually at every session

Contracts hereaf-

hereafter, the joint committee on printing, shall contract for

ter.

the printing of the next ensuing session.

CHAPTER 304.

Passed Mar. 12, 1832

An act relating to recording deeds.

Deeds mayr at any
time be recorded.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
if at the time of the passage of this act, or at any time here-

after, any deeds or conveyances except deeds or convey.

ances by way of mortgage, of or relating to land, duly ac-

knowledged and required by law to be recorded, shall not

have been recorded within the time prescribed by law, such

deeds or conveyances may, notwithstanding such omission,

be recorded; and when recorded, shall have as against the

grantors, their heirs, executors, or administrators, the same

Shall be valid a-

validity and effect as if recorded within the lime aforesaid;

gainst the grantor.

and shall in like manner have such effect and validity as

against all purchasers with notice of such deeds or convey-

And all persons ha-

ances; and as against all creditors becoming so with notice

ving notice; but

aforesaid, and as against all creditors of such grantors, and

not without notice

of their heirs, who shall become so after the recording afore-

said of said deeds or conveyances, but as against all credit-

ors aforesaid having become so, without notice aforesaid,

antecedently to the lime of the recording aforesaid, the said

deeds or conveyances shall be deemed, and have validity

and effect only as contracts for convey ances or assurance of

the estate, interest, or use purported by such deed or con-

veyance to be conveyed or assured; Provided however, that

in all cases where the grantees, their heirs, executors, or

administrators, in such deeds or conveyances, shall take pos-

session of the lands or tenements purported to be conveyed

or in any wise assured by such deeds or conveyances, the

Possession gives

said deeds or conveyances shall, after being recorded as

validity

aforesaid, have against all persons whomsoever as from and

after the taking of the possession aforesaid, the same effect

and validity to all intents and purposes, as if they had been

Exception

recorded within the proper time as aforesaid; it being how-

ever understood, that nothing in this act contained, shall be

construed to repeal or in any wise affect the preferences

and priorities, and provisions in that behalf declared and

made, in and by the first section of the act, passed at De-

cember session, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-

five, chapter two hundred and three, entitled, an act con-