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81.

See notes to sec. 76.

82.

See notes to sec. 76.

Defective Conveyances.

An. Code, 1924. sec. 87. 1912, sec. 85. 1904. sec. S3. 1888, sec. 82. 1888, ch. 485.

1890, ch. 120. 1900, ch. 3. 1904, chs. 123 and 258. 1906, chs. 1, 342, 516 and 783.

1908. ch. 259. 1910, ch. 5SS (p. 64). 1912, ch. 85. 1914, ch. 253. 1916, ch.

151, sec. 1. 1938. ch. 396, sec. 1. 1920, ch. 554, sec. 1. 1922. ch. 544,

sec. 1. 1924, ch. 431, sec. 85. 1927, ch. 590, sec. 87. 1929,

ch. 546, sec. 87. 1931, ch. 312, sec. 87. 1933, ch. 50.

sec. 87. 1935, ch. 472, sec. 87.

87. All deeds, mortgages, releases, bonds or conveyances, bills of sale,
chattel mortgages and all other conveyances of real or personal property,
or of any interest therein or agreements relating thereto which may have
been executed, acknowledged or recorded in the 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 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 ont 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 cor-
poration 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, mort-
gages, bonds of 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 affect the interest of bona fide
purchasers or creditors, without notice, who may have become so previous
to June 1st, 1935.

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. 259. 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. 1931, ch. 312.

sec. 91. 1933, ch. 50, sec. 91. 1935, ch. 472, sec. 91.

91. Any assignment of any mortgage, which assignment has been
heretofore 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