ART. 16] DEEDS—DIVORCE. 385

1888, art. 16, sec. 34. 1868, ch. 325.

34. Whenever any deed or bill of sale shall have been duly
signed and sealed by the parties thereto, but shall not have
been acknowledged by the said parties, or any one of them, in
the manner or form, or before the person authorized to take
such act or acknowledgment, the circuit court for the county in
which, by law, the said deed or bill of sale ought to be or to
have been recorded, or the circuit courts of Baltimore city, if
the said deed or bill of sale ought, by law to be or to have been
recorded in said city, may, upon the petition of any party to
said deed or bill of sale, or his or their assigns, or any person
claiming under them, setting forth the defects in the acknowl-
edgment of said deed or bill of sale, pass an order directing
the other parties thereto to appear and answer the said peti-
tion, and may cause notice to be given to such parties by sum-
mons or publication, according to the practice of the said
court, and may direct testimony to be taken in relation to the
matters in said petition, or in said petition contained; and the
said court may grant relief upon said petition by directing the
said parties, or any of them, to acknowledge or to re-acknowl-
edge the said deed or bill of sale, as the case may require;
and the order of the said court, passed in the premises, direct-
ing the said acknowledgment to be made as aforesaid, shall
operate in the same manner and to the same extent, from the
date of the said order, as if the said party, ordered as afore-
said to acknowledge or re-acknowledge the said deed or bill of
sale, had thereupon so done; provided, however, that the
rights of any person who shall not be a party to said proceed-
ings, as aforesaid, shall not be in any wise affected by said
order.

Divorce.

Ibid. sec. 35. 1860, art. 16, sec. 24. 1841, ch. 262, sec. 1.
1845, ch. 330, sec. 1.

35. The courts of equity of this State shall have jurisdic-
tion of all applications for divorce; and any person desiring a
divorce shall file his or her bill in the court, either where the
party plaintiff or defendant, resides; or if the party against
whom the bill is filed be a non-resident, then such bill may be
filed in the court where the plaintiff resides; and upon such
bill the same process by summons, notice or otherwise, shall
be had to procure the answer and appearance of a defendant,
as is had in other cases in chancery; and in all cases where,
from the default of the defendant, a bill for divorce may be

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