ART. 21] DEFECTIVE CONVEYANCES—"DYING WITHOUT ISSUE." 527

1898, ch. 49.

84. All mortgages and assignments of mortgages defectively
sworn to between the 27th day of March, 1896, and the 14th
day of March, 1898, before any officer authorized by the laws
of this State to administer oaths and take affidavits, shall be
as valid as if the same had been made in conformity with law.

1900, ch. 656. 1902, ch. 102. 1904, ch. 78.

85. All mortgages and assignments of mortgages defectively
sworn to and recorded in this State between the 14th day of
March, 1898, and the 15th day of March, 1904, before any
officer authorized by the laws of this State to administer oaths
or to take affidavits, shall be as valid to all intents and pur-
poses as if the said mortgages or assignments of mortgages
had been sworn to in conformity with law.

Miscellaneous.

1888, art. 21, sec. 83. 1886, ch. 236.

86. In any deed executed after the 7th day of April, 1886,
of any real or personal estate, the words "die without issue,"
or " die without leaving issue," or "have no issue," or any other
words which may import either a want or a failure of issue of
any person in his lifetime, or at the time of his death, or an
indefinite failure of his issue, shall be construed to mean a
want or failure of issue in the lifetime, or at the time of the
death of such person, and not an indefinite failure of his issue,
unless a contrary intention shall appear by the deed.

Gambrill v. Forest Grove, 66 Md. 17. Erb v. Grimes, 94 Md. 106.

Ibid. sec. 84. 1882, ch. 215, secs. 1, 2.

87. In all cases where any railroad equipment and rolling
stock, or other personal property to be used in or about the
operation of any railroad, shall be sold to any person, firm or
corporation, to be paid for in whole or in parts by instalments,
or shall be leased, rented, hired or delivered on condition that
the same shall be used by the person, firm or corporation pur-
chasing, leasing, renting, hiring or receiving the same, the title
to the same to remain in the vendor, lessor, renter, hirer or
deliverer of the same until the agreed upon price of such prop-
erty shall have been paid, such condition in regard to the title
so remaining in the vendor, lessor, renter, hirer or deliverer,
notwithstanding delivery to and possession by the other party,
until such payments are fully made, shall be valid for all intents
and purposes as to subsequent purchasers in good faith, and