Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor      297

CHAPTER 57
(House Bill 50)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sec-
tions 106, 107 and 108 of Article 21 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1951 Edition—said sections having
been, respectively, Sections 102 103, and 107 in the 1947
Supplement, as amended), title "Conveyancing," sub-
title "Defective Conveyances," to make valid deeds,
mortgages, bonds of conveyances, bills of sale, and all
other conveyances of real and personal property, or of
any interest therein or agreements, relating thereto,
defective in acknowledgment or in the certificate thereof,
or when the official character of the officer taking the
acknowledgment has not been stated in the body of the
certificate or certified to, as required by law, or when
the conveyance or agreement has not been witnessed or
sealed, or when any deed heretofore made to or from
a corporation prior to the payment of bonus tax which
was afterward paid, or any mortgage or assignment of
mortgage defectively sworn to or not sworn to at all.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Sections 106, 107 and 108 of Article 21 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition—being,
respectively, Sections 102, 103 and 107 in the 1947 Supple-
ment, as amended), title "Conveyancing," sub-title "Defec-
tive Conveyances," be and they are hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

106. All deeds of conveyance of property in this State
which may have been recorded without any certificate of
the clerk of any of the courts of this State accompanying
the acknowledgment thereof, in cases in which such certifi-
cates are necessary and proper, certifying to the official
character and signature of the Justice of the Peace taking
the same, and all deeds of conveyance of property in this
State which may have been recorded without the seal of the
notary public before whom the acknowledgment was taken,
having been first attached, when the grantor resided in
another State, and the acknowledgment was made in that
State, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as if such
defect and omission did not exist; provided, that the execu-

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[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
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Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.