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An Act concerning Conveyances. 1822 299 (1822.6)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0073 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI. 2i9 for the use of public roads, to be recovered before any justice *of the peace of the proper county, or before any court of com- petent jurisdiction, with costs. SEC. 8. If any person shall throw down. or open any gates, bars, fence or fences, enclosing lands not his own, or shall in any manner injureany building not his own, lie shall be liable to such damages as shall he assessed by a jury, with costs, to be recovered as last aforesaid. COWLFS MEA). -Speaker of the House of Representatives. DAVID DICKSON, Lieutenant- Governor and President of the Senate. Approved: June the 15th, 1822. WALTER LEAKE. AN ACT, concerning Conveyances. -SEc. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- ratives of the State of Mississippi, in General Ossembly convened. That no estate of inheritance or freehold, or for a term of more than one year, in lands or tenements, shall be conveyed from one to another, unless the conveyance be declared by writing sealed and delivered; nor shall such conveyance lie good against a purchaser for valuable consideration, not having notice thereof, or any creditor, unless the same writing be ac- knowledged by the party or parties who shall have exe uted it, or be proved by one or more of the subscribing witnesses to it, that such party or parties, signed, sealed and delivered the same, as his, her, or their voluntary act and deed, before a judge of the Supreme Court of this state, or a justice of the County Court, justice of the peace and notaries public of that county in which the lands tenements and hereditaments. orsomne part thereof are situated; anda certificate of such acknowledg. ment or proof shall be written upon or under the said deed or conveyance, and be signed by the judge or justice before whnom it was made and be lodged with the clerk of the County Court of the proper county, to be there recorded: and every deed or conveyance so acknowledged, or proved and certified and recorded as aforesaid, shall be received in evidence in any court of this state, in like manner as if the same were then and there produced and proved. SEc. 2. No covenant or agreement made in consideratioa of marriage, shall be good against a purchaser for valuable con- sideration, not having notice thereof, or any creditor, unless

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