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orphans' court in this State; provided, that an authenticated
copy of the said last will and testament shall have been filed
and recorded in the office of the register of wills of the county
where the lands lie; and provided further, that full authority
was given by the said last will and testament to the executors
to sell and convey the said real estate.

Norment v. Brydon, 44 Md. 112. Smith v. Montgomery, 75 Md 138.
Wingert v. Zeigler, 91 Md. 326.

Defective Conveyances.

1888, art. 21, sec. 79. 1880, ch. 256, sec. 1.

80. All deeds, mortgages and other conveyances, made and
executed in the State of Maryland since the twenty-second day
of March, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, which
were executed and acknowledged before any justice of the
peace duly commissioned and qualified for any county or city
in this State, and which deeds, mortgages and other convey-
ances were recorded in the county or city where the lands or
other property, in whole or in part, are situated, shall have
the same effect and operation in law, and be as valid to all
intents and purposes, as if the justice of the peace before
whom the same was acknowledged, was, at the time of such
acknowledgment, a justice of the peace duly commissioned and
qualified according to law, for the county or city in which the
lands or other property were situated, or in which the grantors
in such deed, mortgage or other conveyance, resided, saving and
reserving the rights of creditors and bona fide purchasers, with-
out notice.

Wingert v. Zeigler, 91 Md. 326.

Ibid. sec. 80. 1860, ch. 256, sec. 2.

81. 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 acknowl-
edged 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