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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 586.

AN ACT to amend the Code of Public General Laws of

Maryland, article forty- five, title "Husband and Wife,"

by adding an additional section thereto, to be known as

section twenty, under the sub-title of " An act to quiet

the title to property passing from husband to wife.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That article forty-five, of the Code of Public

General Laws of Maryland, title "Husband and Wife," be

amended by adding an additional section thereto, to be

known as section twenty, under sub-title of " An act to

quiet the title to property passing from husband to wife,"

and to read as follows :

SEC. 20. That whenever any interest or estate of any kiud

To quiet

in any property, real, personal or mixed, situate, lying or

titles

being within this State, has been or shall hereafter be sold

passing

conveyed, assigned, mortgaged, leased, transferred or deliv -

husband

ered by any husband, directly or indirectly, to his wife, and

to wife.

has been or shall hereafter be susequently sold, conveyed,

assigned, mortgaged, leased, transferred or delivered by

such wife and husband during their coverture, or by such

wife after such coverture has terminated, or has been or

shall hereafter be subsequently devised or bequeathed by

such wife during such coverture, or after such coverture has

terminated, the fact of such previous sale, conveyance,

assignment, mortgage, lease, or delivery by such husband,

directly or indirectly, to his wife, shall not hereafter be

deemed or taken, at law or in equity, to have given pre-

served or reserved, nor to give, preserve or reserve to any

subsisting creditor of such husband, by reason of any debt

or obligation, claim or demand whatsoever, any other or

greater right, lien or cause of action against such interest

or estate, or against any third person, his heirs, executors,

administrators or assigns, than such creditors would have

had in case such interest or estate had been sold, conveyed,

assigned, mortgaged, leased, transferred or delivered, or

devised or bequeathed by such husband directly to such third

person. And the fact of such previous sale, conveyance,

assignment, mortgage, lease, or delivery by such husband,

directly or indirectly, to his wife, or the recital thereof, in

any instrument of writing whatever, shall not hereafter be

deemed or taken at law or in equity, to give or impart, nor

to have given or imparted notice to any third person, his

heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, of the existence,

or of the possibility or probability of the existence of any