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LAWS OF MAEYLAND.

SEC. 23. That any and every sale of real estate or personal

property heretofore made between the first day of January eigh-

teen hundred and sixty, and the last day of December eighteen

hundred and seventy-eight, under or so intended and purporting

to be a power of sale contained in a mortgage authorizing the

mortgagee, his executors, administrators or assigns or any person

to be named by him or them, or authorizing the mortgagee, his

successors or assigns or any person to be named by him or them,

or when the mortgage contains terms or expressions of like char-

Mortgage

acter or similar import, authorizing a sale, and made by a person

sales.

other than the mortgagee, his successors or assigns, or his or their

executors or administrators and by a person subsequently to de-

fault, nominated and appointed by the mortgagee or his successor

or his assigns, or his executors or administrators or their assigns,

by power of attorney as the person to make said sale by virtue of

the authority supposed to be contained in said mortgage, and by

virtue of authority supposed to be conferred by section five, of

article sixty-four, of the Code of Public General Laws of eighteen

hundred and sixty, now embodied in section six, of article sixty-

six, title "Mortgages," to which this is an additional section, and

which said sale has been duly reported to the court having juris-

diction in such cases and by said court after order nisi, and due

publication thereof or other proper legal proceeding finally ratified

and confirmed, be and the same is hereby made valid and effectual

to all intents and purposes as fully as if the person so making

said sale had been named in said mortgage as the person to make

said sale or to execute said power of sale, and this section shall

apply to all cases whether the person making said sale was named

by a mortgagee being a natural person or by a mortgagee being a

body corporate.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

Effective.

the date of its passage.

Approved March 27, 1890.