1880, ch. 256, sec. 2.

80. All deeds, mortgages and other conveyances, executed and acknowledged by the grantors since the twenty-second day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, in the county or city in this State in which the grantors then resided, before any other justice of the peace of any other county or city in this State, duly commissioned and qualified, shall be as valid, to all intents and purposes, as if acknowledged in the county or city where the lands or other property, in whole or in part, are situate, before a justice of the peace of said county or city, or as if acknowledged before a justice of the peace of the county or city in which the grantors resided, saving and reserving the rights of creditors and bona fide purchasers without notice; this section, however, not to avail, nor to be pleaded, nor given in evidence, nor in any manner to affect pending litigation.

1870, ch. 346. 1878, ch. 116.

81. All deeds of conveyance of property in this State which may have been recorded without any certificate of the clerk of any of the courts of this State accompanying the acknowledgment thereof, in cases in which such certificates are necessary and proper, certifying to the official character and signature of the justice of the peace taking the same, and all deeds of conveyance of property in this State which may have been recorded without the seal of the notary public before whom the acknowledgment was taken, having been first attached, when the grantor resided in another State, and the acknowledgment was made in that State, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as if such defect and omission did not exist; provided, that the execution and acknowledgment of such deeds in all other respects conformed to the laws of this State, in such cases made and provided; saving, nevertheless, the rights of bona fide purchasers and incumbrancers without notice; also, excepting such as are now in suit pending in the courts of law or equity.

1888, ch. 485.

82. All deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyance and bills of sale which have been executed and acknowledged, and are recorded in this State subsequent to the passage of the act of the

general assembly of Maryland, passed at the January session, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, chapter two hundred and eight, which may not have been acknowledged, according to the laws existing at the time of said acknowledgment, or where the certificate of acknowledgment is not in the prescribed form, shall be and the same are hereby made valid to all intents and purposes as if the said acknowledgment and the certificate thereof had been in legal form; provided, that said deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyance and bills of sale in other respects are in conformity with the laws; and provided, further, that nothing in this section shall affect the interest of bona fide purchasers or creditors, without notice, who may have become so previous to the 5th day of April, 1888.

1886, ch. 236.

83. In any deed executed after the 7th day of April, 1886, of any real or personal estate, the words "die without issue," or "die without leaving issue," or "have no issue," or any other words which may import either a want or a failure of issue of any person in his lifetime, or at the time of his death, or an indefinite failure of his issue, shall be construed to mean a want or failure of issue in the lifetime, or at the time of the death of such person, and not an indefinite failure of his issue, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the deed.

Gambrill v. Forest Grove, 66 Md. 17.

1882, ch. 215, secs. 1-2.

84. In all cases where any railroad equipment and rolling stock, or other personal property to be used in or about the operation of any railroad, shall be sold to any person, firm or corporation, to be paid for in whole or in parts by instalments, or shall be leased, rented, hired or delivered on condition that the same shall be used by the person, firm or corporation purchasing, leasing, renting, hiring or receiving the same, the title to the same to remain in the vendor, lessor, renter, hirer or deliverer of the same until the agreed upon price of such property shall have been paid, such condition in regard to the title so remaining in the vendor, lessor, renter, hirer or deliverer, notwithstanding delivery to and possession by the other party, until such payments are fully made, shall be valid for all intents and purposes

as to subsequent purchasers in good faith, and creditors; pro-vided, the term during which the rent or instalments are to be paid shall not exceed ten years. Such contracts shall be in writing and shall be acknowledged and recorded as deeds in the county in which the said vendor or lessor has its principal office in this State.

1884, ch. 485. 1888, ch. 395.

85. All leases or sub-leases of land made in this State between the 8th day of April, 1884, and the 5th day of April, 1888, for a. longer period than fifteen years, shall be redeemable at any timeafter the expiration of fifteen years, at the option of the tenant, for a sum of money equal to the capitalization of the rent reserved at the rate of six per centum in gold coin of the United States, or its equivalent, unless some other sum not exceeding four per cent. capitalization of said rent in said coin shall be specified in said lease, in which event said rent shall be redeemable for the sum fixed in said lease or sub-lease. All rents reserved by leases or sub-leases of land made in this State after April 5th, 1888, for a. longer period than fifteen years shall be redeemable at any time, after the expiration of ten years from the date of such lease or sub-lease, at the option of the tenant, after a notice of six months to the landlord, for a sum of money equal to the capitalization of the rent reserved at a rate not to exceed six per centum.

1884, ch. 238, secs. 1-2.

86. In all cases where proceedings shall have been or shall be instituted for the renewal of leases for ninety-nine years, renewable forever, which shall have expired, or shall be about to expire, and the court shall have decreed or shall decree the renewal of such leases, such decree shall be sufficient to renew the title of all parties to such leases, their heirs, personal representatives and assigns, as the case may be, for another term of ninety-nine years, as fully as if the lease so renewed had been originally made for a length of time equivalent to such renewal term, added to the original term; provided, that no such decree shall bind any person not a party to said suit. A copy of such decree shall be recorded among the land records of the county or city where the lands demised in such leases lie.

1886, ch. 154.

87. Whenever the lessee or lessees named in any lease or sublease containing a covenant for perpetual renewal, or any person

or persons claiming under such lessee or lessees, shall have retained or shall retain uninterrupted possession of the demised premises, or any part thereof, for twelve months after the expiration of such lease or sub-lease, it shall be conclusively presumed in reference to the whole or any part or parts of said demised premises, whereof possession shall have been retained as aforesaid, and in favor of said lessee, lessees, or of the person or persons claiming under such lessee or lessees, that a new lease or sub-lease of the whole of said demised premises was executed prior to the expiration of said lease or sub-lease by the lessor or lessors therein named, or by the person or persons rightfully claiming under such lessor or lessors to the said lessee or lessees, or to the person or persons rightfully claiming under such lessee or lessees, for such additional term, under such rent and upon such covenants, conditions and stipulations as were provided in said lease or sub-lease.

1. Shall give bond; penalty; condition. 5. Penalty for refusal of physician to 2. Return of process by.

3. When not to hold inquest.

4. Attendance of a physician at inquest.

attend,

6. Physician's fee.

7. Burial of deceased.

8. When, shall act in place of sheriff.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 25, sec. 1. 1824, ch. 145, sec. 1.

1. Every coroner before he acts as such, shall, within sixty days after his appointment, and in each year thereafter, give bond to the State of Maryland, with securities approved by the judges of the orphans' court, or some of them, in the penalty of three thousand dollars, with a condition that he will well and truly execute the office of coroner in all things thereunto belonging, and shall also well and faithfully execute and return all writs or other process to him directed; and shall also pay and deliver to the person or persons entitled to receive the same, all sums of money, all goods and chattels by him levied, seized or taken agreeably to the directions of the writ or other process under which the same shall have been levied, seized or taken; and shall also keep and detain in safe custody all and every person committed to his custody or by him taken in execution, or who shall

be committed for the want of bail, without suffering them to escape or depart from his custody, and shall also satisfy and pay all judgments which shall be rendered against him as coroner, and shall also well and truly execute and perform the several duties required of or imposed upon him by the laws of this State;: and the said bond shall, immediately after the execution thereof,. be recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court for the county in which he is coroner, or in the office of the clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city, if he is coroner in said city.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 25, sec. 2. 1813, ch. 102. 1823, ch. 180. 1829, ch. 39.. 1840, ch. 216. 1842, ch. 272. 1845, ch. 123.

2. The provisions of this code in relation to the return of process in the hands of a sheriff, upon his death or removal, shall apply to process in the hands of a coroner upon the happening of the like event.

Ibid. sec. 3. 1831, ch. 250, sec. 1.

3. No coroner shall summon or hold any jury of inquest overthe body of any deceased person where it is known that the deceased came to his death by accident, mischance, or in any other manner, except where the said person died in jail, or where there are such circumstances attending the death or case as to amount to a strong probability or reasonable belief that the deceased came to his death by felony.

Ibid. sec. 4. 1846, ch. 168, sec. 1.

4. Whenever a jury shall be convened by a coroner, or justice of the peace acting as coroner, on the body of any person found dead, or supposed to have died from violence, within this State, whereon any marks of violence shall appear, the jurors after being sworn, and also the coroner or justice, may require the attendance of some physician practising within the county or city where such jury shall meet, to inform himself, by due examination of the deceased, of the cause of his death, and to testify and give evidence before the said jury and coroner, or justice, in the premises.