Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1892-05-06
CHAPTER $50.

AN ACT to amend the Code of Public
General Laws, Article Forty-fve. title
Husband and Wife by adding an additional
Section thereto to be known as Section
Twenty under the subtitle OF an Act 10
quiet the title to property passing from
husband to Wife.
SECTION |. BE 1t enacted by the General
Assembly Of Maryland. Thai Article Tox.y-
tive OF tine Coda Of Public General Laws Of
Maryland title Husband and Wife be amended
by adding an additional Section thereto to be
known a. Section Twenty under subtitle Of
an Act 10 quiet the lille to property passing
from Husband and Wife and to read as
follows:
SECTION 90 That whenever any interest
or estate OF any kind in any property, real,
personal or mixed, situate lying or being
within this State, has been or shall hereafter
be sold, conveyed. assigned, mortgaged,
leased, ira nsierred or delivered by any hus-
band, directly or indirectly. TO his wife, and
has been or shall hereafter be subsequently,
sold, conveyed, assigned, mortgaged, leased,
transferred or delivered by such Wife and
Husband during their eovetare, or by such
wife after such e0veture has terminated, or
has been or snail hereafter be subsequently,
devised or bequeathed by such wife during
such coveture or after sucn coveture mas
terminated, the tact OF such previous sale,
conveyance, assignment, mortgage, lease or
delivery 10y such husband. directly or in
directly to mis- WIFE, shall not hereafter be
deemed or taken, ut law or in equity, to have
given, preserved or reserved, nor to give
preserve or reserve sto any subsisting creditor
vi such husband, by reason OF any debt or
obligation, claim or demand whatsoever any
other or greater right lien or cause OF action
against such interest or estate or against any
third person his heirs, executors admins
traitors or -assignees, than such creditors would
have had in case such interest or estate had
been sold conveyed, assigned, mortgaged,
leased. transferred or delivered, or devised or
bequeathed by such husband directly to such
third person.
And the TACT OF such previous sale, convey.
ance, assignment mortgage, lease or delivery
by such husband, directly or indirectly to his
wife, or the recital thereof in any instrument
Of writing whatever, shall not hereafter be
deemed or taken, at law or in equity, to give
or import, nor TO have given or imported
uotice to any third person, his heirs, execu-
tors administrators or assignees. OF the exist
ence or OF the possibility or probability OF the
existence of any subsisting creditor or
creditors of such husband, provided that this
Act shall not apply to any action, suit or
cause at law or in equity now pending, nor to
any that may be instituted on or before the
FIRST day of January, Eighteen hundred and
ninety-three, in reference to any such sale,
conveyance. assignment mortgage, lease or
delivery made on or prior to the passage Of
this Act.
SEC. Q. And be 1t enacted. That this Act
shall take effect from the date OF its passage
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is q
correct copy Of an Act OF the General Assem-.
bly, OF Maryland. passed January Session.
1892.
w. G. PURNELf..
Secretary OF the Senate.
CARLTON SHAFER.
Chief Clerk OF the House OF Delegates.
Approved by the Governor,
April Eth. 1892.