Pennsylvania Act 1783-1029 (session 2) — VALIDATING MORTGAGES MADE 1776-1778 UPON RECORDING

Act text

A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT

To an act, entitled "An act for acknowledging and recording of deeds."

Section 3. Be it therefore enacted, and it is hereby enacted by the Representatives of the Freemen of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and by the authority of the same, That all mortgages and defeasible deeds in nature of mortgages, of any lands, tenements or hereditaments, within this commonwealth, made and executed at any time or times between the said January 1, 1776, and the said June 18, 1778, which hath or have, at any time or times since the date or dates thereof, been acknowledged or proved, and recorded, or which shall, within six months from and after the passing of this act, be acknowledged or proved, and recorded, in the manner directed in and by the said recited act, shall be as good and effectual in law, to all intents and purposes (except as hereinafter is provided), as if the same had been acknowledged or proved and recorded within the time limited in and by the said recited act.

Section 4. Provided always nevertheless, That nothing in this act contained shall extend to, or be deemed or construed to operate against, any subsequent judgment, statute, recognizance, attainder, forfeiture or lien, whatsoever, or against any subsequent bona fide mortgagee or mortgagees, purchaser or purchasers, of any estate, lands, tenements or hereditaments, mentioned or contained in any such prior deed or mortgage, or defeasible deed in nature of a mortgage, who shall have taken such subsequent mortgage, or made such subsequent purchase, before such prior mortgage, or defeasible deed in nature of a mortgage, was or shall be acknowledged or proved and recorded, agreeable to the directions of this act.