ART. 21.] NON-RESIDENT EXECUTORS' DEEDS. 273

tions, shall be as valid and effectual as if the covenants in said
deeds had been expressed therein, in full.

1872, ch. 451.

78. All deeds of conveyance heretofore or hereafter duly
executed, acknowledged and recorded according to law, among
the land records in any county in this State, by executors of the
last will and testament, executed with the formalities required
for the passing of real estate by the laws of this State, and proved
according to law, of any non-resident testator, conveying lands
lying in said county, shall be as valid and effectual in law and
equity as if made by executors under last will and testament,
duly executed, proved and recorded in the office of the register
of wills in this State, for lands lying therein, and whose sales of
real estate under the authority of said will were duly made and
reported to and ratified by an orphans' court in this State; pro-
vided, that an authenticated copy of the said last will and testa-
ment shall have been filed and recorded in the office of the reg-
ister of wills of the county where the lands lie; and provided,
further, that full authority was given by the said last will and
testament to the executors to sell and convey the said real estate.

Norment B. Brydon, 44 Md. 112.

1880, ch. 256, sec. 1.

79. All deeds, mortgages and other conveyances, made and
executed in the State of Maryland since the twenty-second day of
March, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, which were
executed and acknowledged before any justice of the peace duly
commissioned and qualified for any county or city in this State,
and which deeds, mortgages and other conveyances were recorded
in the county or city where the lands or other property, in whole
or in part, are situated, shall have the same effect and operation
in law, and be as valid to all intents and purposes, as if the
justice of the peace before whom the same was acknowledged,
was, at the time of such acknowledgment, a justice of the peace
duly commissioned and qualified according to law, for the county
or city in which the lands or other property were situated, or in
which the grantors in such deed, mortgage or other conveyance,
resided, saving and reserving the rights of creditors and bona fide
purchasers, without notice.
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