ART. 21.] CURING DEFECTIVE DEEDS. 275

general assembly of Maryland, passed at the January session,
eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, chapter two hundred and eight,
which may not have been acknowledged, according to the laws
existing at the time of said acknowledgment, or where the certifi-
cate of acknowledgment is not in the prescribed form, shall be and
the same are hereby made valid to all intents and purposes as if the
said acknowledgment and the certificate thereof had been in legal
form; provided, that said deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyance
and bills of sale in other respects are in conformity with the
laws; and provided, further, that nothing in this section shall affect
the interest of bona fide purchasers or creditors, without notice,
who may have become so previous to the 5th day of April, 1888.

1886, ch. 236.

83. In any deed executed after the 7th day of April,
1886, of any real or personal estate, the words "die without
issue," or "die without leaving issue," or "have no issue,"
or any other words which may import either a want or a
failure of issue of any person in his lifetime, or at the
time of his death, or an indefinite failure of his issue, shall
be construed to mean a want or failure of issue in the lifetime, or
at the time of the death of such person, and not an indefinite
failure of his issue, unless a contrary intention shall appear by
the deed.

Gambrill v. Forest Grove, 66 Md. 17.

1882, ch. 215, secs. 1-2.

84. In all cases where any railroad equipment and rolling
stock, or other personal property to be used in or about the
operation of any railroad, shall be sold to any person, firm or
corporation, to be paid for in whole or in parts by instalments, or
shall be leased, rented, hired or delivered on condition that the
same shall be used by the person, firm or corporation purchasing,
leasing, renting, hiring or receiving the same, the title to the
same to remain in the vendor, lessor, renter, hirer or deliverer of
the same until the agreed upon price of such property shall have
been paid, such condition in regard to the title so remaining in
the vendor, lessor, renter, hirer or deliverer, notwithstanding
delivery to and possession by the other party, until such pay-
ments are fully made, shall be valid for all intents and purposes