21 Pa. Stat. § 252

Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-92
Section 252 - Deeds defective in form

No deed, grant, conveyance or assurance, heretofore made, of any lands, tenements or hereditaments whatsoever, shall be judged or taken to be defective, avoided or prejudiced, for or by reason of any want of form, or formal or orderly parts of a deed, as the Premises, Habendum, Tenendum, Reddendum, the Clause of Warrantee, the Conclusion, In Witness whereof, and the Date, or for Mis-naming, Mis-recital, or Non-recital of any of the said lands or hereditaments, or for Mis-recital or Non-recital, or not mentioning, or not true mentioning, of the grantor's estate of, in or to, the premises, or for want of Livery and Seizin, or attournment, or proofs of the consideration money actually paid, or for not producing in court, upon trial, any of the said deeds or grants, recited in the said conveyances, or for not being recorded in the Rolls-office; but that all and every the said deeds, grants and conveyances, releases and assurances, shall be and are hereby declared and enacted to be good and available in law, and shall be expounded as the law of this province was when they were made, and shall conclude all strangers, as well as privies to the same: saving to every person and persons, other than to the said grantors, their heirs and successors, all such rights, titles, estates, claims and interests, as they or any of them had or ought to have of, in or to the said lands, tenements and hereditaments, or any part thereof, at the time when such deeds or conveyances were sealed and delivered, so as they do pursue their said rights, titles, claims or interests, by way of action or lawful entry, before the first day of October, which shall be in the year of our Lord 1710.

21 P.S. § 252

1705, 1 Sm.L. 31, § 3.