624 ARTICLE 21.

complied with. Norment v, Brydon. 44 Md. 115. And see Smith v. Montgomery.
75 Md. 139.

This section held to have no application to the question of the validity in Mary-
land of a will executed in a foreign country according to the laws of that country
Lindsay v. Wilson, 103 Md. 268.

See art. 93, secs. 299 and 364.

Defective Conveyances.

An. Code, sec. 82. 1904, sec. 80. 1888, sec. 79. 1880, ch. 256, sec. 1.

84. All deeds, mortgages and other conveyances, made and executed
in the State of Maryland since the twenty-second day of March, in the year
eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, which were executed and acknowledged
before any justice of the peace duly commissioned and qualified for any
county or city in this State, and which deeds, mortgages and other con-
veyances, were recorded in the county or city where the lands or other
property, in whole or in part, are situated, shall have the same effect and
operation in law, and be as valid to all intent and purposes, as if the jus-
tice of the peace before whom the same was acknowledged, was, at the
time of such acknowledgment, a justice of the peace duly commissioned
and qualified according to law, for the county or city in which the lands or
other property were situated, or in which the grantors in such deed, mort-
gage and other conveyance, resided, saving and reserving the rights of
creditors and bona fide purchasers, without notice.

This is a curative statute. The power to pass such laws has been frequently sus-
tained by the court of appeals. Wingert v. Zeigler, 91 Md. 326.

An. Code, sec. 83. 1904, sec. 81. 1888, sec. 80. 1880, ch. 256, sec. 2.

85. All deeds, mortgages and other conveyances, executed and acknowl-
edged by the grantors since the twenty-second day of March, in the year
eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, in the county or city in this State in
which the grantors then resided, before any other justice of the peace of
any other county or city in this State, duly commissioned and qualified,
shall be as valid, to all intents and purposes, as if acknowledged in the
county or city where the lands or other property, in whole or in part, are
situate, before a justice of the peace of said county or city, or as if acknowl-
edged before a justice of the peace of the county or city in which the
grantors resided, saving and reserving the rights of creditors and bona fide
purchasers without notice; this section, however, not to avail, nor to be
pleaded, nor given in evidence, nor in any manner to affect litigation pend-
ing on April 10, 1880.

This is a curative statute. The power to pass such laws has been frequently sus-
tained by the court of appeals. Wingert v. Zeigler, 91 Md. 326.

An. Code, sec. 84. 1904, sec. 82. 1888, sec. 81. 1870, ch. 346. 1878, ch. 116.

86. All deeds of conveyance of property in this State which may have
been recorded without any certificate of the clerk of any of the courts of this
State accompanying the acknowledgment thereof, in cases in which such
certificates are necessary and proper, certifying to the official character
and signature of the justice of the peace taking the same, and all deeds of
conveyance of property in this State which may have been recorded without