Pennsylvania Act 1923-364 — VALIDATING DEEDS

Act text

VALIDATING DEEDS
                 Act of Jun. 29, 1923, P.L. 933, No. 364              Cl. 68
                                  AN ACT

     To validate deeds and conveyances defectively acknowledged prior
        to the fourth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and
        one.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That no deed or conveyance of
     lands, tenements, hereditaments whatsoever, executed within or
     without this Commonwealth, and delivered by husband and wife
     prior to the fourth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and
     one, to bona fide purchasers for valuable consideration, and
     acknowledged by them before an officer of this Commonwealth, or
     of any other State of the United States, duly authorized by law
     to take such acknowledgment, shall be deemed, held, or adjudged
     invalid, defective, or insufficient in law, by reason of the
     fact that the acknowledgment of the wife was not separately
     taken, or does not show that the wife was examined separate and
     apart from her husband and that the deed or conveyance was read
     and the full contents thereof made known to her, or that, upon
     separate examination, she did declare that she did voluntarily
     and of her own free will and accord seal and, as her act and
     deed, deliver the said deed or conveyance without any coercion
     or compulsion of her husband, and notwithstanding the fact that
     the seal of the officer taking the acknowledgment was not
     attached to such deed or conveyance; but all and every such deed
     and conveyance shall be good, valid, and effectual in law for
     transferring, passing, and conveying the estate, title, and
     interest of such husband and wife in and to the lands,
     tenements, and hereditaments mentioned in the same, as if all
     the requisites and particulars then required by law for such
     acknowledgments had been fully complied with, and particularly
     set forth in the acknowledgment thereof; and the record thereof
     duly made in the proper office for the recording of deeds, and
     exemplification of the same duly certified, shall be legal
     evidence in all cases in which the original would be competent
     evidence: Provided, however, That this act shall not validate
     deeds and conveyances heretofore declared invalid in any
     judicial proceeding, nor affect any suit pending and
     undetermined.