The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-05-21
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AN ACT to amend the Code of Public
General Laws, Article forty five, title
Husband and Wife, by adding an ad-
ditional section thereto to be known as
Section twenty under the subtitle of an
act to quiet the title to property passing
from husband 10 wife.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, That Article
forty. five of the Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland, title Husband and
Wife," be amended by adding an additional
section thereto to be known as Section
twenty under subtitle of an act to quiet
the title to property passing from husband
to wife and to read as follows:
SEC. 20. 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 here
after be sold, conveyed, assigned, mortgage
ed, leased, transferred or delivered by any
husband, directly or indirectly, to his wife,
and has been or shall hereafter be subse-
quently sold, conveyed, assigned, mortgag
ed, leased, transferred or delivered by such
wife and husband during their coverture,
or by such wife after such coverture has
terminated, or has been or shall hereafter
be subsequently devised or bequeathed by
such wife during such coverturc or after
such coverture has terminated, the fact of
such previous sale, conveyance, assignment,
mortgage, lease or delivery by such hus-
band, directly or indirectly to his wife, shall
not hereafter be deemed or taken, at law or
in equity, to have given, preserved or re-
served, nor to give, preserve or reserve to
any subsisting creditor of 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 in
terest or estate or against any third person, his
heirs, executors, administrators or assignees,
than such creditors would have had in case
such interest or estate had been sold, convey
ed, assigned, mortgaged, leased, transferred
or delivered, or devised or bequeathed by
such husband directly to such third person.
And the fact of such previous sale, con-
veyance, assignment, mortgage, lease or
delivery by such husband, directly or indi-
rectly 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 notice to any third per-
son, his heirs, executors, administrators or
assignees, of the existence, or of the posi-
bility 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 clause 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 ,. And be it enacted, That this
act shall take effect from the date of its
passage.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing
is a correct copy of an act of the General
Assembly of Maryland, passed January
session, 1892.
W. G.. PURNELL,
Secretary of the Senate.
CARLTON SHAFER,
Chief Clerk of the House Of Delegates.
Approved by the Governor, April Z, 1892.