CONVEYANCING. 627

Miscellaneous.

An. Code, sec. 90. 1904, sec. 86. 1888, sec. 83. 1886, ch. 236.

92. In any deed executed after the 7th day of April, 1886, of any
real or personal estate, the words " die without issue," or " die without
leaving issue," or " have no issue," or any other words which may import
either a want or a failure of issue of any person in his lifetime, or at the
time of his death, or an indefinite failure of his issue, shall be construed
to mean a want or failure of issue in the lifetime, or at the time of the
death of such person, and not an indefinite failure of his issue, unless a
contrary intention shall appear by the deed.

This section referred to in construing art. 93, sec. 341—see notes thereto. Gam-
brill v. Forest Grove Lodge, 66 Md. 35 (dissenting opinion). And see Bradford v.
Mackenzie, 131 Md. 336.

Cited but not construed in Erb v. Grimes, 94 Md. 106.
For a similar section applicable to wills, see art. 93, sec. 341.

An. Code, sec. 91. 1904, sec. 87. 1888, sec. 84. 1882, ch. 215, secs. 1 and 2.
1910, ch. 438 (p. 64).

93. In all cases where any railroad equipment and rolling stock, or
other personal property to be used in or about the operation of any railroad
shall be sold to any person, firm or corporation, to be paid for in whole or
in parts by instalments, or shall be leased, rented, hired or delivered on
condition that the said shall be used by the person, firm or corporation pur-
chasing, leasing, renting, hiring or receiving the same, the title to the same
to remain in the vendor, lessor, renter, hirer or deliverer of the same until
the agreed-upon price of such property shall have been paid, such condition
in regard to the title so remaining in the vendor, lessor, renter, hirer or de-
liverer, notwithstanding delivery to and possession by the other party, until
such payments are fully made, shall be valid for all intents and purposes
as to subsequent purchasers in good faith, and creditors; provided, the
term during which the rent or instalments are to be paid shall not exceed
twenty years. Such contracts shall be in writing and shall be acknowl-
edged and recorded as deeds in the county in which the said vendee or lessee
has its principal office in this State.

An. Code, sec. 92. 1904, sec. 88. 1888, sec. 85. 1884, ch. 485. 1888, ch. 395.

94. All leases or sub-leases of land made in this State between the
8th day of April, 1884, and the 5th day of April, 1888, for a longer period
than fifteen years, shall be redeemable at any time after the expiration of
fifteen years, at the option of the tenant, for a sum of money equal to the
capitalization of the rent reserved at the rate of six per centum in gold coin
of the United States, or its equivalent, unless some other sum not exceed-
ing four per cent, capitalization of said rent in said coin shall be specified
in said lease, in which event said rent shall be redeemable for the sum fixed
in said lease or sub-lease. All rents reserved by leases or sub-leases of land
made in this State after April 5th, 1888, for a longer period than fifteen
years shall be redeemable at any time after the expiration of ten years
from the date of such lease or sub-lease, at the option of the tenant, after a