184: CONVEYANCING. [ART. 21

45.

See notes to section 43.

47.

See notes to section 43.

48.

As to charges on petty loans, contents of bills of sale, etc., see article 56,
sections 21A to 21C.

As to fraud by mortgagors of personal property, see article 27, sections
184 and 185.

See article 21, section 43, and notes.

50.

See notes to section 43.

52.

To the first note to this section on page 509 of volume 1 of the Anno-
tated Code, add "And see Millikin v. Second Natl. Bank, 206 Fed. 18."
See notes to section 43.

Defective Conveyances.

1904, art 21, sec. 83. 1888, art. 21, sec. 82. 1888, ch. 485. 1890, ch. 120.

1900, ch. 3. 1904, chs. 123 & 258. 1906, chs. 1, 342, 516 &

783. 1908, ch. 259. 1910, ch. 588 (p. 64).

1912, ch. 85. 1914, ch. 259.

85. All deeds, mortgages, releases, bonds of conveyance, bills of sale,
chattel mortgages and all other conveyances of real or personal property,
or of any interest therein which may have been executed, acknowledged
or recorded in this State subsequent to the passage of the Act of the
General Assembly of Maryland, passed at its January Session, 1858,
Chapter 208, which may not have been acknowledged according to the
laws existing at the time of said acknowledgment, or which may not
have been acknowledged before a proper officer, or when the certificate
of acknowledgment or affidavit is not in the prescribed form or when
the official character of the officer taking the acknowledgment has not
been certified to as required by law, or where the conveyance has not
been witnessed to or sealed as required by law, shall be and the same are
hereby made valid, to all intents and purposes, as if the conveyance or
affidavit had been acknowledged or sworn to, certified to, witnessed and
sealed in accordance with the laws existing at the time of their making;
provided, that the said deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyance, bills of
sale and other conveyances are in other respects in conformity with the
laws; and provided further, that .nothing in this section shall affect the
interest of bona fide purchasers or creditors, without notice, who may
have become so previous to April 1, 1914.

See notes to section 88.

See notes to this section (as it stood in 1911) in volume 1 of the Anno-
tated Code.

1914, ch. 421.

85A. All deeds, mortgages, releases, bonds, of conveyance, bills of
sale, chattel mortgages and all other conveyances of real or personal