360 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 253.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 80,
Article 93 of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Testa-
mentary Law," sub-title "Conveyance of Real Estate."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 80 of Article 93, of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws, title "Testamentary Law," sub-title "Conveyance
of Real Estate," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted with amendments so as to read as follows:

80. The Executor or administrator, including the adminis-
trator de bonis non, of a person who shall have made sale of
real estate and have died before receiving the purchase money,
or conveying the same, may convey such real estate to the pur-
chaser; and where any decedent shall have made a sale or con-
veyance of any real or leasehold interest in lands or tenements
and shall have conveyed the same by a deed, which deed is de-
fective by reason of erroneous recitals, improper or erroneous
description of the property sold and intended to be conveyed or
is lacking in any matter of form or execution required by law
or in the acknowledgment thereof, or for any other reason, the
executor or administrator of such deceased person may execute
and deliver a confirmatory deed of such property, and his deed
shall be good and valid in law, and shall convey all the right,
title, claim and interest of such deceased person in such real
estate as effectually as the deed of such person so dying would
have conveyed the same; and in the case of deeds defective as
aforesaid the confirmatory deed of such executor or adminis-
trator shall be good and sufficient to convey all the right, title,
claim and interest of said grantor, and shall bind all persons
who would have been bound by the conveyance of such de-
ceased person in the same manner that they would be bound
had such defective deed been a good and sufficient deed to con-
vey the real or leasehold estate intended to be conveyed thereby;
provided the executor or administrator of the person so dying
shall satisfy the Orphans' Court granting him administration
that the purchaser had paid the full amount of the purchase
money.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That thia Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 3d, 1914.