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59 Executor's deed. 60. Mortgage of real estate. 61. Bill of sale. 62. Chattel mortgage. 63. Lease. 64. Sufficiency of prescribed forms. 65. Similar forms to be sufficient. 66. Form of acknowledgment within the State. 67. By husband and wife. 68. Without the State. 69. Any form substantially equiva- lent sufficient 70. Effect of the word "covenants.". 71. General warranty. 72. Special warranty. 73. Covenant of seisin. 74. Right to convey. 75. Quiet enjoyment. 76. Grantor has done no act to en- cumber. 77. For further assurance. 78. Such covenants in deeds hereto- fore executed to be valid.' 79. Deeds of real estate by executors. Defective Conveyances. 80. Defectively acknowledged deeds cured. 81. Further provisions as to same.

82. Further provisions as to same 83. Defectively acknowledged con- veyances subsequent to 1858 made valid. Provisos. 84. Mortgages defectively sworn to since March 27, 1896, made valid. 85. Subsequent to 1900. Miscellaneous. 86. " Die without issue," legal effect of. 87. When title to remain in vendor of railroad rolling stock until purchase money paid. 88. What leases to be redeemable; how 89. Leases or sub-leases for more than 15 years redeemable after 5 years at not more than 6 per cent. 90. Renewal of leases by decree 91. Conclusive presumption of re- newal, when to arise. 92. Conveyances and devises of land binding on streets or high- ways to pass1 title to the centre of suchstreets or high- ways unless otherwise ex- pressly declared.

Conveyances in General.

1888, art. 21, sec 1. 1860, art. 24, sec. 1 1766, ch. 14, sec. 2.
1856, ch. 154, secs. 81, 82. 1890, ch 210.

1. No estate of inheritance or freehold, or any declaration or
limitation of use, or any estate above seven years, shall pass
or take effect unless the deed conveying the same shall be
executed, acknowledged and recorded as herein provided; and
all such deeds shall be acknowledged before some one of the
officers named in sections two, three, four and five of this"
article, and any unmarried woman between the age of eighteen
years and twenty-one years, shall have power to make a deed
of trust of her property, real, personal or mixed; provided,
the same shall be approved and sanctioned by a court having
equity jurisdiction in the city or county where. the grantor