14 RELEASE OF VENDOR'S LIEN. [ART. 21.

1906, ch. 65.

28 B. Such release may be written by the vendor or his
assignee upon the record in the office where the deed is
recorded, and attested by the clerk of the court.

Ibid.

28C. Or such a release may be endorsed on the original
deed by the vendor or his assignee; and upon such deed, with
the release thereon endorsed, being filed in the office in which
the deed is recorded, the clerk shall record such release at the
foot of said deed.

Ibid.

28 D. Every release executed in either of the above modes
shall be construed and deemed sufficient to release said lien as
fully and effectually as any instrument of writing whatever
could do.

Ibid.

28 E. A release or assignment may be made by an executor
or assignee in the same manner and form and with like effect
us by the vendor; this section to apply to every assignee
whether he claims by direct assignment from the vendor or
his executor, or under a series of assignments.

Approved March 8, 1906.

Defective Conveyances.

1906, ch. 1. 1906, ch. 342. 1906, ch. 516. 1906, ch. 783.

83. All deeds intended to convey or create an estate of
inheritance or freehold, or any declaration or limitation of use,
or any estate above seven years, and all mortgages, bonds of
conveyance and bills of sale, which have been executed subse-
quent to the passage of the Act of the General Assembly of
Maryland, passed at the January session, 1858, chapter 208,
and which have not been acknowledged and recorded according
to the laws existing at the time of said execution, or where the
certificate of acknowledgment is not in the prescribed form,
shall be and the same are hereby made valid as between the
parties thereto and their privies, to all intents and purposes as
if acknowledgment and certificate thereof had been made in