274 CONVEYANCING. [ART. 21.

1880, ch. 256, sec. 2.

80. All deeds, mortgages and other conveyances, executed and
acknowledged 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 acknowledged 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 pending litigation.

1870, ch 346. 1878, ch. 116.

81. 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 acknowledg-
ment 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 convey-
ance of property in this State which may have been recorded
without the seal of the notary public before whom the acknowl-
edgment 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 mode and pro-
vided; saving, nevertheless, the rights of bona fide purchasers
and incumbrancers without notice; also, excepting such as are
now in suit pending in the courts of law or equity.

1888, ch. 485.

82. All deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyance and bills of
sale which have been executed and acknowledged, and are re-
corded in this State subsequent to the passage of the act of the