522 CONVEYANCING. [ART. 21

of said demised premises, whereof possession shall have been retained
as aforesaid, and in favor of said lessee, lessees, or of the person or
persons claiming under such lessee or lessees, that a new lease or sub-
lease of the whole of said demised premises was executed prior to the
expiration of said lease or sub-lease by the lessor or lessors therein
named, or by the person or persons rightfully claiming under such
lessor or lessors to the said lessee or lessees, or to the person or persons
rightfully claiming under such lessee or lessees, for such additional
term, under such rent and upon such covenants, conditions and stipula-
tions as were provided in said lease or sub-lease.

1904 art. 21, sec. 92. 1888, art. 21, sec. ,88. 1892, ch. 684.
96. All devises, gifts, grants or conveyances of land in this State,
binding on any street or highway, or when any street or highway shall
be one or more of the lines thereof, shall be construed to pass to the
devisee, donee, or grantee therein, all the right, title and interest of
the devisor, donor or grantor of the said land, to the centre of the
street or highway on which the same is located or binding as aforesaid,
unless the devisor, donor or grantor shall in express terms in the writ-
ing by which the devise, gift or conveyance is made reserve to himself
all the right, title and interest to the said street or highway.

This section applied so as to give the lessee title to the centre of an alley.
Maryland Telephone Co. v. Ruth, 106 Md. 651. And see Shipley v. Western
Maryland R. R. Co., 99 Md. 131.

This section held inapplicable to a deed executed before Its adoption. Rie-
man v. Baltimore Belt R. R. Co., 81 Md. 79.
See sections 11 and 12, and notes.