Pennsylvania Act 1856-321 — SATISFACTION OF MORTGAGES

Act text

SATISFACTION OF MORTGAGES - RELATING TO
                 Act of Apr. 11, 1856, P.L. 304, No. 321              Cl. 68
                               A SUPPLEMENT

     To the acts providing for the entering of satisfaction on
     Judgments and Mortgages.

        Compiler's Note:  Section 2(a) of Act 53 of 1978 repealed Act
            321 except as to satisfaction of mortgages.
        Section 1.  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
     Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General
     Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the
     same, That hereafter in all cases where the amount due on any
     mortgage or judgment entered of record, together with interest
     and cost, shall have been paid to the legal holder or holders
     thereof, and the judgment bond, or note, or mortgage, together
     with the accompanying bonds, if any, duly endorsed in the
     presence of two witnesses, that the same are satisfied and
     discharged, shall be produced to the prothonotary or recorder
     having charge of the records of such mortgages and judgments
     respectively, it shall be the duty of such officer, for the fee
     of seventy-five cents in the case of a mortgage, and twenty-five
     cents in the case of a judgment, to enter satisfaction on the
     record of such liens, and to file among the papers in their
     respective offices the judgment, notes, bills, mortgages and
     bonds respectively, which shall remain filed thereafter, for the
     benefit of all parties interested therein: Provided, That no
     such satisfaction shall be entered until after a certificate
     from the president judge or the district judge of the proper
     county, allowing the same, which certificate shall also be
     produced and filed with the papers as aforesaid.