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term of ninety-nine years, as fully as if the lease so renewed
had been originally made for a length of time equivalent to
such renewal term, added to the original term; provided, that
no such decree shall bind any person not a party to said suit.
A copy of such decree shall be recorded among the land
records of the county or city where the lands demised in such
leases lie.

1888, art. 21, sec. 87. 1886, ch. 164.

91. Whenever the lessee or lessees named in any lease or
sub-lease containing a covenant for perpetual renewal, or any
person or persons claiming under such lessee or lessees, shall
have retained or shall retain uninterrupted possession of the
demised premises, or any part thereof, for twelve months after
the expiration of such lease or sub-lease, it shall be conclu-
sively presumed in reference to the whole or any part or parts
of said demised premises, whereof possession shall have been
retained as aforesaid, and in favor of said lessee, lessees, or of
the person or persons claiming under such lessee or lessees,
that a new lease or sub-lease of the whole of said demised
premises was executed prior to the expiration of said lease or
sub-lease by the lessor or lessors therein named, or by the
person or persons rightfully claiming under such lessor or
lessors to the said lessee or lessees, or to the person or persons
rightfully claiming under such lessee or lessees, for such
additional term, under such rent and upon such covenants,
conditions and stipulations as were provided in said lease or
sub-lease.

Ibid. sec. 88. 1892, ch. 684.

92. All devises, gifts, grants or conveyances of land in this
State, binding on any street or highway, or when any street or
highway shall be one or more of the lines thereof, shall be
construed to pass to the devisee, donee, or grantee therein, all
the right, title and interest of the devisor, donor or grantor of
the said land, to the centre of the street or highway on which
the same is located or binding as aforesaid, unless the devisor,
donor or grantor shall in express terms in the writing by which
the devise, gift or conveyance is made reserve to himself all
the right, title and interest to the said street or highway.

Rieman v. Balto. Belt R. R. Co., 81 Md., 79.

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