T. WATK1NS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 164.

AN ACT to Simplify and Abridge the Rules and

forms of Connveyances.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
as follows :

CHAPTER 1ST.

Passed Mar.
8, 1856.

SECTION 1. This Act and all its provisions shall
be construed literally and with a view to promote its
objects.

Construed lib-
erally.

2. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to
apply to last wills and testaments.

Last wills and
testaments.

3. The term real estate, as used in this Act, shall
be construed as co-extensive in meaning with lands,
tenements and hereditaments, and as embracing all
chattels real.

Interest may
be disposod of.

4. Any person claiming title to any real estate
may, notwithstanding there may be an adverse pos-
session thereof, sell and convey his interest therein.

Adverse pos-
session.

5. All title to real estate acquired by the grantor,
subsequent to a conveyance purporting to be in fee
simple, shall enure to the grantee.

Fee simple.

6. Every deed conveying land shall, unless an
exception be therein made, be construed to include
all buildings, privileges, liberties and appurtenances
of every kind belonging to such land.

Deeds, what
to include.

7. Lineal and Collateral Warranties, with all their
incidents are abolished; but any covenant, allowed
by law, may be inserted in any deed of real estate.

Lineal war-
ranties effect-
ed.

8. The heirs, devisees, and personal representa-
tives of any covenantor, shall be liable to the extent
of the assets devised or descended, according to the
terms of the covenants contained in the deed.

Liability.

9. No covenants shall be implied in any convey-
ance of real estate.

Covenants.

10. No term of inheritance shall be necessary to
create an estate in fee simple.

Term of in-
junction.

11. Every conveyance of real estate shall be con-
strued to pass a lee simple estate, unless a contrary
intention shall appear by express terms, or be neces-
sarily implied therein.

Fee simple.

12. Every conveyance of real estate, purporting
to be in fee simple, shall be construed to pass all the
estate of the grantor, in the property intended to be
conveyed.

Estate of gran-
tor.