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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, 1924, sec. 85. 1912, sec. 83. 1904, sec. 81. 1888, sec. 80. 1880, ch. 256, sec. 2.

101. All deeds, mortgages and other conveyances, executed and ac-
knowledged 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, 1924, sec. 86. 1912, sec. 84. 1904, sec. 82. 1888, sec. 81. 1870, ch. 346.

1878, ch. 116.

102. 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
the seal of the notary public before whom the acknowledgment was taken,
having been first attached, when the grantor resided in another State, and
the acknowledgment was made in that State, shall be valid to all intents and
purposes as if such defect and omission did not exist; provided, that the
execution and acknowledgment of such deeds in all other respects con-
formed to the laws of this State, in such cases made and provided; saving,
nevertheless, the rights of bona fide purchasers and incumbrancers without
notice; also, excepting such as were in suit pending in the courts of law
or equity of this state on March 27, 1878.

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, 1924, sec. 87. 1912, sec. 85. 1904, sec. 83. 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. 588 (p. 64). 1912, ch. 85. 1914, ch. 259. 1916, ch. 151,

sec. 1. 1918, 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.

1939, ch. 44, sec. 87.

103. All deeds, mortgages, releases, bonds of conveyances, bills of
sale, chattel mortgages and all other conveyances, of real or personal prop-
erty, 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-