258 CONVEYANING. [ART. 21.

State, had duly qualified and was acting as such previous to the
passage of the act of eighteen hundred and fifty-two, chapter one
hundred and six, and continued so to act, without having quali-
ified as required by the said act, and as such commissioner took
the acknowledgment of any deed or mortgage, such deed or
mortgage shall be as valid as if the said commissioner had been

duly qualified to act at the time of the taking of such acknowl-
edgment, or doing any other official act.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 24, sec. 23. 1715, ch. 47, sec. 4. 1794, ch. 57.

23. Neither livery of seisin nor indenting shall be necessary to
the validity of any deed.

Paca's Lessee v. Forward, 2 H. & McH. 175. Smith's Lessee v. Steele, 3 H.
& McH 103. Gitting's Lessee v. Hall, 1 H. & J. 14. Tyson v. Rickard, 3 H.
& J. 109. Hudson v. Warner, 2 H. & G. 415. Matthews v. Ward. 10 G. & J.
443 Barry v. Hoffman, 6 Md. 78. Phelps v. Phelps, 17 Md. 134. Sixth Ward
Bldg. Ass'n, v. Wilson, 41 Md. 506.

Ibid sec 24. 1782, ch. 23,

24. Any person seized of an estate tail, in possession, reversion
or remainder, in any lands, tenements or hereditaments, may grant,
sell and convey the same in the same manner and by the same
form of conveyance as if he were seized of an estate in fee
simple; and such conveyance shall be good and available, to all
intents and purposes, against all persons whom the grantor might
debar by any mode of common recovery, or by any ways or means
whatsoever.

Paca's Lessee v. Forward, 2 H. & McH. 175 Hopkins' Lessee v. Threlkeld,
3 H. & McH. 448. Calvert's Lessee v. Eden, 2 H & McH. 279. Ridgely v.
McLaughlin, 3 H & McH. 220. Todd v. Pratt, 1 H. & J. 465. Laidler v.
Young's Lessee, 2 H & J. 69. Smith v. Smith, 2 H. & J 314. Jones v. Jones,
2 H. & J 281. Brogden e Walker, 2 H. & J 285. Howard v. Moale's Lessee,
2 H. & J 249. Partridge v. Dorsey's Lessee, 3 H. & J. 302. Carroll's Lessee
v. Maydwell, 3 H. & J. 292 Newton v. Griffith, 1 H. & G. 112. Chase's Case,
1 Bl. 230 Maslin v. Thomas, 8 Gill, 23. Key's Lessee v. Davis, 1 Md. 41.
Posey's Lessee v. Budd, 27 Md. 477.

Ibid sec. 25. 1856, ch 154, sec. 21.

25. Every power of attorney authorizing an agent or attorney
to sell and convey any real estate, shall be attested and acknowl-
edged in the same manner as a deed, and recorded with the deed