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Passed Jan. 31
Deeds in cer-
tain cases to
have effect.
Copy of the
same to be evi-
dence.
Provisos.
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CHAPTER 164.
A Further Additional Supplementary act to the Act, entitled,
An act for Quieting Possessions, Enrolling Conveyances,
and securing the Estates of Purchasers.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Man/land,
That where any deed, conveyance, or instrument of writing,
intending to pass, convey and transfer, or purporting to pass,
convey and transfer, the right, title, interest and estate, of any
feme covert, residing or being without the limits of this state, of
in and to any lands, tenements or hereditaments, lying and being
within this state, hath been or shall be acknowledged by the hus-
band of such feme covert before a judge or justice of a court of
any one of the former provinces, or of the present United States,
or of the territories thereof, or before any other person or persons
authorised by law to take the acknowledgment of a nonresident
feme covert, and such deed, conveyance, or instrument of writing,
hath been or shall be acknowledged by such feme covert in the
form prescribed by law, then and in such case, every such deed,
conveyance, or instrument of writing, shall be of the same force
and effect, to pass, convey and transfer, to the bargainee or bar-
gainees, grantee or grantees, or donee or donees, therein named,
the right, title, interest and estate, thereby intended to be passed,
conveyed and transferred, of, in and to, the lands, tenements or
hereditaments, therein mentioned, in the same manner as if such
deed, conveyance, or instrument of writing, had been acknow-
ledged by the husband and feme covert in the manner required by
law, provided such deed, conveyance or instrument of writing,
hath been or shall be recorded within the time and in the manner
required by law,
2. And be it enacted, That a copy of any such deed, convey-
ance, or instrument of writing, acknowledged and recorded in
the manner provided by this act, and of the acknowledgment
thereof, and the endorsement thereon certified, under the seal of
office, where the same is or shall be recorded shall be evidence
of the said deed, conveyance, or instrument of writing, and of
the execution, acknowledgment, and recording thereof, as fully
for all purposes as copies so certified are evidence in case of
deeds, conveyances or instruments of writing, acknowledged and
duly recorded in the manner provided by law.
3. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing in this act
contained shall effect or be construed to extend, to any case where
any land may have been actually recovered, and possession re-
ceived by due course of law in opposition to any deed or con-
veyance which, before the passing of this act, was defective, or
where the person or persons claiming independent of, and in op-
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