98 ARTICLE 21.

passage of the Act of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at its
January Session, 1858, Chapter 208, which may not have been acknowl-
edged according to the laws existing at the time of said acknowledgment,
or which may not have been acknowledged before a proper officer, or in
which the certificate of acknowledgment is not in the prescribed form, or
in which the official character of the officer taking the acknowledgment is
not set out in the body of the certificate, or has not been certified to as
required by law, or in which the conveyance has not been witnessed to or
sealed as required by law, or any deed heretofore made to or from a corpo-
ration prior to the payment of bonus tax which was afterwards paid, shall
be and the same are hereby made valid, to all intents and purposes as if the
conveyances and agreements had been acknowledged, certified to, witnessed
and sealed according to law; providing the said deeds, mortgages, bonds or
conveyances, bills of sale and other conveyances and agreements are in
other respects in conformity with the laws; provided, further, that nothing
in this section shall effect the interest of bona fide purchasers or creditors,
without notice, who may have become so previous to June 1st, 1929. ¹

This section applied when acknowledgment was defective. McDivit v. Mc-

Divit, 148 Md. 273.

This section referred to in construing sec. 49—see notes thereto. Tyler Co.

v. O'Ferrall, 153 Md. 355.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 91. 1912, sec. 89. 1908, ch. 25S. 1910, ch. 588 (p. 64),

1912, ch. 85. 1914, ch. 259. 1916, ch. 151, sec. 1A. 1918, ch. 396, sec. 1A.

1920, ch. 354, sec. 1A. 1922, ch. 544, sec. 1A. 1924, ch. 431, sec. 89.

1927, ch. 590, sec. 91. 1929, ch. 546, sec. 91.

91. Any assignment of any mortgage, which assignment has been here-
tofore executed and recorded, but which has not been sealed and in which
no mention of any seal has been made or in which either of such defects,
or any mortgage or assignment of mortgage sworn to or not sworn to at
all, shall be and they are hereby made valid to all intents and purposes,
as if said mortgage or assignment of mortgage had been in such matters
in full conformity with the law in force at the time of such execution pro-
vided, that any such mortgage or assignment of mortgage is in other
respects legal and valid; and provided, further, that nothing in Sections
87 and 91 shall affect the rights of any bona fide purchasers or creditors,
without notice, who become so prior to June 1st, 1929. ^a

Miscellaneous.

94.

Where lessee is entitled to redeem and tenders reversioner the money, former
will not be relieved of rent accruing thereafter and before a decree directing
conveyance to him, unless he keeps tender good. Maulsby v. Page 105 Md. 24.

Lessees (even after they assign their interests), can only be relieved of their
covenant to pay by redeeming rent under this section. Baltimore v. Latrobe.
101 Md. 633.

¹ Ch. 545 of acts of 1929 validated deeds, mortgages, etc., of property in that por-
tion of Baltimore City annexed thereto by ch. 82 of acts of 1918 and formerly in
Anne Arundel County where recorded with the clerk of the Court for Anne Arundel
County between June 1, 1918, and June 1, 1919, inclusive.