232 ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND ATTORNEYS IN FACT. [ART. 10

Attorneys in Fact.

1904, art. 10, sec. 27. 1888. art. 10, sec. 25. 1860, art. 11. sec. 24. 1836. ch. 270.

28. All payments of money, transfers of property or other dealings
made or had to or with any person acting under a power of attorney,
or other agency duly executed or created by any person within this
State, which would be binding upon the party giving such power of
attorney or agency if the same was in full force and unrevoked at the
time of such payment, transfer, or other dealings, shall be equally
binding and obligatory upon the representatives or other assignees of
such party, although at the time aforesaid said party may be dead, or
may have assigned his interest in such money, property or dealings;
provided, that the person paying, transferring or having such dealings
with the person acting under such power of attorney or agency had not
at the time notice of the death of the party giving such power or creat-
ing such agency, or of the fact of the assignment aforesaid.

Ibid. sec. 28. 1888, art. 10, sec. 26. 1860, art. 11, sec. 25. 1838, ch. 49.

29. A power of attorney to transfer stock standing on the books of
any corporation chartered by this State in the name of a partnership
or firm, signed with the name of such partnership or firm, and sealed
by one of the members thereof, acknowledged as directed in the next
succeeding section, shall be as valid and effectual as if signed and sealed
by all the members of such partnership or firm.

Ibid. sec. 29. 1888. art. 10. sec. 27. 1860, art. 11, sec. 26. 1838, ch. 49.

30. The member signing and sealing such power of attorney shall
acknowledge the same before a justice of the peace of this State, or
before a notary public, mayor of a corporation, or judge of a court of
record, and shall have such acknowledgment, if made before a notary
public, certified under his notarial seal, or if made before a mayor of
a corporation, certified under the seal of such corporation, or if made
before a judge of a court of record, certified by the clerk of the court
under the seal of the court, or if it be made before a justice of the
peace in any other county than that in which the transfer of stock is
proposed to be made, the clerk of the circuit court for the county or
the superior court of the city of Baltimore, where the justice resides
shall certify under the seal of the said court that the said justice, at
the time of said acknowledgment, was duly commissioned and sworn.

Ibid. sec. 30. 1888. art. 10 sec. 28. 1860, art. 11. sec. 27.
1856, ch. 154, sec. 21.

31. A power of attorney to execute a deed shall be executed,
acknowledged and certified as required in section 27 of article 21,
title "Conveyancing."

Unless the power of attorney is executed, acknowledged and recorded, as
required, the deed is of no validity. Citizens' Fire Ins. Co., v. Doll. 35 Md.
103.

The power of attorney may be recorded either at or before the recording
of the deed. Rosenthal v. Ruffin. 60 Md. 326. (See article 21. section 25).

As to powers of attorney authorizing the execution of releases to guardians,
etc., see art. 79, sections 4 and 5.