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§ 254. Deeds of husband and wife made prior to act of 1770

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 21 P.S. Deeds and Mortgages

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated Statutes
Title 21 P.S. Deeds and Mortgages (Refs & Annos)
Chapter 1. Deeds and General Provisions
Execution, Probate and Acknowledgment
Validation of Certain Acknowledgments and Conveyances
21 P.S. § 254
§ 254. Deeds of husband and wife made prior to act of 1770
No grant, bargain and sale, lease, release, feoffment, deed, conveyance or assurance whatsoever, heretofore bona fide made and executed by husband and wife in manner aforesaid, of any lands, tenements and hereditaments whatsoever, shall be deemed, held or adjudged invalid or defective in law, or avoided or prejudiced; but that all and every the said grants, bargains and sales, releases, feoffments, deeds, conveyances and assurances, shall be, and are hereby declared to be, good and valid in law for transferring and passing the estates, rights, titles, and interests of such husband and wife, according to the true intent and meaning of the words thereof; saving to every person and persons, bodies politic and corporate whatsoever (other than to the said husband and wife), their heirs and successors, all such rights, titles, estates, claims and interests, as they or any of them have or ought to have, of, in or to the said lands, tenements and hereditaments.

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1770, Feb. 24, 1 Sm.L. 307, § 1.
21 P.S. § 254, PA ST 21 P.S. § 254
Current through Act 11 of the 2024 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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