THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 751

CHAPTER 404
(Senate Bill 2)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
1 of Article 21 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951
Edition), title "Conveyancing, " sub-title "Conveyances in
General, " to repeal Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 12 of
said Article 21 (1951 Edition); to transfer Section 9
of said Article 21 to Article 18 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Acknowledgments, "
sub-title "Uniform Acknowledgments Act, " the said
section so transferred to be known as Section 22 of said
Article 18; to repeal Sections 1 to 8, inclusive, of said
Article 18, to repeal and re-enact, with amendments,
Section 11, 17 (b) and 18 of said Article 18, and to add
a new section to said Article 18, said new section to be
known as Section 18A, and to follow immediately after
Section 18 of said Article, all relating to acknowledg-
ments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 12 of Article
21 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition),
title "Conveyances, " sub-title "Conveyances in General, "
be and they are hereby repealed and that Section 1 of said
Article 21 be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

1. No estate of inheritance or freehold, or any declara-
tion or limitation of use, or any estate above seven years,
shall pass or take effect unless the deed conveying the
same shall be executed, acknowledged and recorded as
herein provided; except that this section shall not apply
to any lease or sub-lease for an initial term of not more than
seven years which contains any provision for renewal for
one or more succeeding stated terms of not more than
seven years each, if under such provision for renewal the
right to effect or prevent each such renewal term shall be
optional with either the landlord or the tenant; and pro-
vided, further, that whenever a lease or sub-lease to which
this section shall apply has been executed, but has not been
acknowledged or recorded or neither acknowledged nor
recorded, as herein provided, such lease or sub-lease shall,

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