HOUSE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 508 PRINTER'S NO. 1711
No. 484 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY SHAFFER, SALVATORE, ANDREZESKI, FISHER, PETERSON,
HOPPER AND AFFLERBACH, FEBRUARY 9, 1989
AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
NOVEMBER 15, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of August 11, 1967 (P.L.205, No.69), entitled
2 "An act to validate conveyances and other instruments which
3 have been defectively acknowledged," extending the
4 effectiveness of the act.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Section 1 of the act of August 11, 1967 (P.L.205,
8 No.69), entitled "An act to validate conveyances and other
9 instruments which have been defectively acknowledged," amended
10 June 22, 1978 (P.L.496, No.75), is amended to read:
11 Section 1. No grant, bargain and sale, feoffment, deed of
12 conveyance, release, assignment, mortgage or other assurance of
13 lands, tenements and hereditaments, whatsoever, bearing date
14 prior to the year [one thousand nine hundred seventy-eight] one
15 thousand nine hundred eighty-eight, made, executed and delivered
16 by husband and wife, or by any person or trustee or attorney in
17 fact for any other person or persons, to a bona fide purchaser
1 or purchasers for a valuable consideration, and acknowledged
2 before any officer duly authorized by law to take such
3 acknowledgment, shall be deemed, held or adjudged invalid or
4 defective or insufficient in law by reason of any informality or
5 defect in such acknowledgment as not being made according to
6 law, OR BECAUSE THE DATE OF THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT PREDATES THE DATE <--
7 OF THE INSTRUMENT, or by reason of the acknowledgment thereto
8 having been made by any trustee or attorney in fact in his
9 individual capacity instead of as such trustee or attorney in
10 fact; but all and every such grant, bargain and sale, feoffment,
11 deed of conveyance, release, assignment, mortgage or other
12 assurance, so made, executed and acknowledged, as aforesaid,
13 shall be as good, valid and effectual in law for transferring,
14 passing and conveying the estate, right, title and interest of
15 such husband and wife of, in and to the lands, tenements and
16 hereditaments mentioned in the same, as if all the requisites
17 and particulars of such acknowledgment had been made according
18 to law, and as if such trustee or attorney in fact had made the
19 acknowledgment thereto in such capacity; and the record of the
20 same duly made in the proper office for recording of deeds in
21 this Commonwealth, and exemplifications of the same duly
22 certified, shall be legal evidence in all cases in which the
23 original would be competent evidence.
24 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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