Pennsylvania Act 1828-212 — DEEDS ACKNOWLEDGING AND RECORDING OF - SUPPLEMENT

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DEEDS ACKNOWLEDGING AND RECORDING OF - SUPPLEMENT
                 Act of Apr. 15, 1828, P.L. 490, No. 212              Cl. 68
                           A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT

     To the act entitled 'An act for acknowledging and recording of
        deeds."
        Section 1.  Releases of legacies and releases to executors,
     etc; duly acknowledged and sealed
        Any release or other instrument in writing, being evidence of
     the payment or satisfaction of any legacy, charged upon lands,
     tenements, or hereditaments, and also any release, or other
     instrument in writing, given to any executor, administrator,
     assignee, trustee or guardian, whether relating to real or
     personal estate, if such release or other instrument in writing
     shall be under seal, and shall have been executed before at
     least two competent subscribing witnesses, and shall also have
     been duly acknowledged, or the execution thereof proved in the
     manner provided by the existing laws, for the acknowledgment or
     proof of the execution of deeds and conveyances of lands,
     tenements and hereditaments, in order to authorize the same to
     be recorded, may, in case such release or other instrument in
     writing relates to real estate, be recorded in the office for
     recording of deeds, in the county where such real estate may be
     situate, and in case such release or other instrument in writing
     relates to debts, dues, claims, legacies, or other personal
     property, the same may be recorded in the office for recording
     of deeds, in any county where the person or persons interested
     therein may reside, and copies or exemplifications of such
     releases or other instruments in writing, under seal,
     acknowledged or proved, and recorded as aforesaid, being
     examined by the recorder, and certified under the seal of the
     proper office, which the recorder or keeper thereof is hereby
     required to do, shall be allowed as well in all courts where
     produced as elsewhere, and are hereby declared and enacted to be
     as good evidence, and as valid and effectual in law, as the
     original releases, or other instruments in writing, under seal,
     would be if duly proved by the subscribing witnesses thereto,
     and the same may be shewed, pleaded and made use of accordingly.
     1828, April 15, P.L. 490, Sec. 1.