Pennsylvania Act 1951-588 — VALIDATING COUNTY TREASURER'S DEEDS

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VALIDATING COUNTY TREASURER'S DEEDS
             Act of Jan. 14, (1952) 1951, P.L. 2085, No. 588          Cl. 68
                                  AN ACT

     Validating county treasurer's deeds where the acknowledgment of
        such deed or deeds was defective in any respect or sale
        thereof not legally returned, if in fact such acknowledgment
        was taken before any officer duly authorized by law to take
        acknowledgments and return duly made at a subsequent term.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  Whenever heretofore any land has been sold by the
     county treasurer of any county for the purpose of securing the
     payment of delinquent taxes which were assessed and levied
     against such land, and the county treasurer in pursuance of such
     sale executed a deed for said lands and acknowledgment of such
     deed by the county treasurer was defective in any respect, or
     where such deed was not acknowledged in open court or where the
     records of the court failed to show a minute of such
     acknowledgment in open court, or where the county treasurer's
     return to any tax sale so made was not made to the next term,
     such sale and such deed shall not be invalidated by reason of
     such defective acknowledgment, or by reason of the fact that
     such deed was not acknowledged in open court or by reason of the
     fact that the records of the court fail to show a minute of such
     acknowledgment in open court, or for failure to make return of
     any tax sale so made to the next term, if in all other respects
     the law relating to the holding of such sale were fully complied
     with and the deed was in fact acknowledged before an officer
     duly authorized by law to take acknowledgments and a return
     thereof made at a subsequent term of court; and all such
     treasurer's sales and treasurer's deeds are hereby ratified,
     confirmed and validated, and the title to any such land
     purchased by any person or by the county commissioners of any
     county at such treasurer's sale and the deed executed and
     acknowledged to such purchaser is hereby declared to be as valid
     as if such deed had been acknowledged in open court, proper
     minute thereof made, and return to said tax sale duly made in
     full conformity with the law relating thereto.
        Section 2.  The provisions of this act shall become effective
     immediately upon final enactment.