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certified to, witnessed and sealed according to law; provid-
ing the said deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyances, bills
of sale and other conveyances and agreements are in other
respects in conformity with the laws; provided, further,
that nothing in this section shall affect the interest of bona
fide purchasers or creditors, without notice, who may have
become so previous to June 1st, 1941.

107. Any assignment of any mortgage, which assign-
ment has been heretofore executed and recorded, but which
has not been sealed and in which no mention of any seal
has been made or in which either of such defects, or any
mortgage or assignment of mortgage sworn to or not sworn
to at all, shall be and they are hereby made valid to all
intents and purposes, as if said mortgage or assignment of
mortgage had been in such matters in full conformity with
the law in force at the time of such execution, provided,
that any such mortgage or assignment of mortgage is in
other respects legal and valid; and provided, further, that
nothing in Sections 103 and 107 shall affect the rights of
any bona fide purchasers or creditors, without notice, who
become so prior to June 1st, 1941.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1941.

Approved April 15, 1941.

CHAPTER 142.
(Senate Bill 139)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sec-
tion 314 of Article 93 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1939 Edition), title "Testamentary Law", sub-
title "Widows".

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 314 of Article 93 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Testamentary
Law", sub-title "Widows", be and the same is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted to read as follows:

314. A surviving husband or widow shall be barred
of his or her right of dower in land or share in land or
share in the personal estate by any such devise or bequest,
unless within thirty days (SO) after the expiration of the