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1196 RELEASES AND RECEIPTS. [ART. 79.
ARTICLE LXXIX.
RELEASES AND RECEIPTS.
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1. To executors and guardian, where
to be recorded.
2. Where and before whom to be ac-
knowledged within this State;
how certified
3. Out of this State, how and before
whom to be acknowledged.
4. May be executed by an attorney
duly authorized by power of
attorney.
6. Power of attorney where to be
recorded.
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6. Releases to be retained by regis-
ter of wills.
7. To trustees from residents of this
State duly acknowledged, may
be recorded in the office of the
clerk or register.
8. To trustees from non-residents,
may be recorded in like man-
ner.
9. Certified copies to be evidence.
10. Releases of females over eighteen,
to be valid.
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P. G. L., (1860,) art 79, sec 1. 1809, ch. 168, secs. 1-2. 1829, ch. 216, sec. 7.
1831, ch. 305. secs. 3-5.
1. Any release or receipt executed to any executor, adminis-
trator, or guardian, by any person authorized to execute the same,
(and any female over eighteen years of age is hereby authorized
to execute the same,) which shall be acknowledged and certified
as hereinafter directed, may be recorded in the office of the reg-
ister of wills of the county where letters testamentary or of
administration were granted, or where the guardian was appointed
or gave bond; and a copy of the record under seal, of such release
or receipt, shall be evidence of such release or receipt.
Pottenger's Exr ». Stewart, 3 H & J. 347. Davis v. Jacquin, 5 H. & J. 100.
Lowe v. Gist, 5 H. & J 106, (note.) Crapster v. Griffith, 6 H. & J. 144.
Bowers v. State, 7 H. & J. 32. Fridge v.State, 3 G & J. 103. Mitchell v.
Mitchell, 1 Gill, 66 Magruder v.Darnall, 6 Gill, 269. Crapster v. Griffith, 2
Bl. 1. Corrie's Case, 2 Bl 488. McClellan v.Kennedy, 3 Md. Ch. 234. Mc-
Kim v. Handy, 4 Md Ch 228. McClellan v. Kennedy, 8 Md. 230. Hanson
v. Worthington, 12 Md. 420. Fouke v. Fleming, 13 Md. 410 Greenwood v,
Greenwood, 28 Md. 370.
Ibid. sec. 2. 1809, ch. 168, sec. 1. 1831, ch 305, sec. 1.
2. The releases and receipts mentioned in the preceding section
may be acknowledged in this State before a justice of the peace;
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