Pennsylvania Act 1854-566 — COAL HILL AND UPPER ST. CLAIR TURNPIKE AND PLANK ROAD COMPANY

Act text

A SUPPLEMENT

To an act incorporating the Coal Hill and Upper Saint Clair Turnpike and Plank Road Company.

Section 1. Deeds made in any other state

Any and every deed of grant, bargain and sale, release, or other deed of conveyance or assurance of any lands, tenements or hereditaments in this Commonwealth, heretofore bona fide made, executed and delivered by husband and wife, or other grantor or grantors, within any other of the United States, where the acknowledgment of the execution thereof has been taken and certified by any officers in the state where the same was made and executed, and the acknowledgment thereof taken, who was authorized by the laws of such State to take and certify the acknowledgment of deeds of conveyance of lands therein, shall be deemed and adjudged to be as good, valid and effectual in law, for transferring, passing and conveying the estate, right, title and interest of such husband and wife, or other grantor or grantors of, in and to the lands, tenements and hereditaments therein mentioned, and be in like manner entitled to be recorded, and if recorded, such record thereof shall be as good and effectual as if the acknowledgment of the execution of the same deed had been in the same and like way, manner and form, taken and certified by any judge, alderman or justice of the peace of and within this Commonwealth. 1854, May 5, P.L. 572, Sec. 1.

Compiler's Note: Section 28 of Act 207 of 2004 provided that any and all references in any other law to a "district justice" or "justice of the peace" shall be deemed to be references to a magisterial district judge.