508 CONVEYANCING. [ART. 21

1888, art. 21, sec. 18. 1860, art. 24, sec, 18. 1822, ch. 104.

18. If any clerk shall die, and during the interval between
his death and the qualification of his successor, the time for
recording any deeds or other written documents required by
law to be recorded in a specific time shall expire, the suc-
cessor of such clerk so dying shall record the same at any
time within one month after his qualification—to have the
same effect as if such deed or other document were recorded
within the time prescribed by law; and shall endorse thereon
the time of the death of the former clerk and the date of his
own qualification, which endorsement shall be recorded with
the deed or other document and shall be evidence of the facts
it contains.

Ibid. sec. 19. 1860, art. 24, sec. 19. 1860, ch. 133, sec. 1. 1867, ch. 58.

19. Any deed or conveyance of or relating, to land, duly
acknowledged and required by law to be recorded, except deeds
or conveyances by way of mortgages, may be recorded after
the time herein prescribed; and when so recorded shall have,
as against the grantor, his heirs or executors, and against all
purchasers with notice of such deed or conveyance, and against
all creditors of such grantor and his heirs who shall become
so after the recording of such deed or conveyance, the same
validity and effect as if recorded within the time hereinbefore
prescribed; this section to apply to -all deeds executed and
acknowledged according to law, whether before or after the
adoption of this code.

Brydon v. Campbell, 40 Md. 331. Carson v. Phelps, 40 Md. 73. Pfeaff v.
Jones, 50 Md. 263. Stanhope v. Dodge, 52 Md. 485. Dodge v. Stanhope,
55 Md. 116. Brown v. Stewart, 56 Md. 431. Harding v. Allen, 70 Md. 395.
Nickel v. Brown, 75 Md. 172. Hoffman v. Gosnell, 75 Md...590. Cissel v.
Henderson, 88 Md. 576.

Ibid. sec. 20. 1860, art. 24, sec. 20. 1831, ch. 304.

20. When the grantee, his heir or executor, in any deed or
conveyance, shall take possession of the lands purporting to
be conveyed thereby, such deed or conveyance, after being
recorded (though not recorded within six months), shall have
against all persons, from the time of taking possession as
aforesaid, the same effect and validity, to all intents and pur-
poses, as if the same had been recorded in proper time; noth.-
ing herein, however, to affect in any manner the preferences
and priorities declared and given in section 16 of this article.

Bryan's Lessee v. Harvey, 18 Md. 113. Nickel v. Brown, 75 Md. 187.