Pennsylvania Act 1929-103 — VALIDATING DEEDS

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VALIDATING DEEDS
                  Act of Mar. 28, 1929, P.L. 95, No. 103              Cl. 68
                                  AN ACT

     To validate deeds and acknowledgments thereof by an executor or
        trustee, and records of same, made prior to the first day of
        January, nineteen hundred and ten, where the will of the
        deceased owner contains a power of sale, where the purchase
        money was paid, where any possession of the lands conveyed
        was taken or claimed pursuant to the conveyance and has
        continued to date of this act, and where the invalidity of
        such conveyance or acknowledgment, record, possession, or
        right of possession has not been determined by action in
        court.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That where any deed or
     conveyance of land within this State has been executed,
     acknowledged, and delivered by any executor of or trustee
     appointed by the last will of the deceased owner of such lands,
     and where said will contained a power or authority to the
     executor, trustee or trustees, or executors, to sell lands of
     the testator, and where such will has been duly probated, and
     such deed or conveyance has been placed of record prior to the
     first day of January, nineteen hundred and ten, in the county
     where the lands were situate, and where the purchase money for
     said lands has been paid to any such executor or trustee, and
     any possession of the lands conveyed was thereupon taken or
     claimed pursuant to such conveyance, and has continued to the
     date of the passage of this act, without any action having been
     heretofore brought and adjudicated in court determining the
     invalidity of such conveyance, acknowledgment, or record, or the
     possession or right of possession of the grantee therein, his
     heirs or assigns, such deed or conveyance, and such
     acknowledgment and record, shall be deemed and adjudged to be
     good, valid, and effectual in law for transferring and conveying
     the estate, right, title, and interest of such testator and of
     the grantor or grantors of, in, and to the lands, tenements, and
     hereditaments herein mentioned.