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power of attorney; but a corporation shall have.power to appoint an attor-
ney for the same purpose by its corporate seal.

Where the power of attorney is recorded prior to the recording of the deed, this
section is complied with. Rosenthal v. Ruffin, 60 Md. 326.

Where the powers of attorney are not produced, and it does not appear that this
section was complied with, the deed is invalid. Citizens' Fire Ins. Co. v. Doll, 35
Md. 103.

When a deed containing a power of attorney is duly executed, proof of execu-
tion of the power is unnecessary. Davidson v. Beatty, 3 H. & McH., 594.

See art. 10, sec. 29, et seq.

An. Code, sec. 26. 1904, sec. 26. 1888, sec. 26. 1856, ch. 154, sec. 22.

27. Such power of attorney shall be deemed to be revoked when the
instrument containing the revocation is recorded in the office in which the
deed should properly be recorded.

An. Code, sec. 27. 1904, sec. 27. 1888, sec. 27. 1856, ch. 154, sec. 23.

28. Any person executing a deed conveying real estate, as agent or
attorney for another, shall describe himself in and sign the deed as agent
or attorney.

There is nothing in this section prohibiting the continuance of the common law
method of executing deeds under powers of attorney. The method pointed out by
this section is also valid. Posner v. Bayless, 59 Md. 61.

This section held to have been complied with. Citizens' Fire Ins. Co. v. Doll,
35 Md. 103. And see Posner v. Bayless, 59 Md. 61.

An. Code, sec. 28. 1904, sec. 28. 1888, sec. 28. 1865, ch. 47.

29. Every bond, writing obligatory or contract for the conveyance of
real estate, or any interest or estate of, in, or relating to real estate, and
every bond, Avriting obligatory or contract for the leasing and demising
for any term of years, of real estate, may be executed, acknowledged and
recorded in the same manner as deeds of real estate are required by this
article to be executed, acknowledged and recorded, and as if such bonds,
writings obligatory and contracts were deeds as aforesaid; and a certified
copy of the record of any such bond, writing obligatory or contract shall
be received as evidence of such bond, writing obligatory or contract, as fully
as a like copy of the record of any such deed duly executed, acknowledged
and recorded in the manner aforesaid would be evidence of such deed.

For a case involving act of 1831, ch. 205, sec. 3 (authorizing bonds of conveyances
to be recorded), see United States Co. v. Shriver, 3 Md. Ch. 384.
See notes to sec. 1.

An. Code, sec. 29. 1906, ch. 65.

30. A release of a vendor's lien retained in any deed of conveyance
may be made in the following form, or to the like effect: I hereby release
the vendor's lien retained in the above (or within) deed. Witness my hand
and seal this————day of————[Seal]. Such release may be written by
the vendor or his assignee upon the record in the office where the deed is
recorded, and attested by the clerk of the court. Or such a release may be
endorsed on the original deed by the vendor of his assignee; and upon such
deed, with the release thereon endorsed, being filed in the office in which