526 CONVEYANCING. [ART. 21

fide purchasers without notice; this section, however, not to
avail, nor to be pleaded, nor given in evidence, nor in any
manner to affect litigation pending on April 10, 1880.
Wingert v. Zeigler, 91 Md. 326.

1888, art. 21, sec. 81. 1870, ch. 346. 1878, ch. 116.

82. All deeds of conveyance of property in this State which
may have been recorded without any certificate of the clerk of
any of the courts of this State accompanying the acknowledg-
ment thereof, in cases in which such certificates are necessary
and proper, certifying to the official character and signature of
the justice of the peace taking the same, and all deeds of
conveyance of property in this State which may have been
recorded without the seal of the notary public before whom
the acknowledgment was taken, having been first attached,
when the grantor resided in another State, and the acknowledg-
ment was made in that State, shall be valid to all intents and
purposes as if such defect and omission did not exist; pro-
vided, that the execution and acknowledgment of such deeds
in all other respects conformed to the laws of this State, in
such cases made and provided; saving, nevertheless, the rights
of bona-fide purchasers and incumbrancers without notice; also,
excepting such as were in suit pending in the courts of law or
equity of this State on March 27, 1878.
Ibid.

Ibid. sec. 82. 1888, ch. 485. 1890, ch. 120. 1900, ch. 3. 1904, ch. 123.

1904, ch. 258.*

83. All deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyance and bills of
sale which have been executed and acknowledged subsequent to
the passage of the act of the general assembly of Maryland,
passed at the January session, 1858, chapter 208, which may
not have been acknowledged according to the laws existing at
the time of said acknowlegment, or where the certificate 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 certificate thereof had been made in
accordance with the law existing at the time of their making;
provided, the said deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyances 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 passage of this act.

Ibid. Erb v. Grimes, 94 Md. 106.

*1904, ch. 268, having been approved later than 1904, ch 193, is selected for codification.