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No grant, bargain and sale, lease, release, feoffment, deed, conveyance or assurance whatsoever, heretofore bona fide made and executed by husband and wife in manner aforesaid, of any lands, tenements and hereditaments whatsoever, shall be deemed, held or adjudged invalid or defective in law, or avoided or prejudiced; but that all and every the said grants, bargains and sales, releases, feoffments, deeds, conveyances and assurances, shall be, and are hereby declared to be, good and valid in law for transferring and passing the estates, rights, titles, and interests of such husband and wife, according to the true intent and meaning of the words thereof; saving to every person and persons, bodies politic and corporate whatsoever (other than to the said husband and wife), their heirs and successors, all such rights, titles, estates, claims and interests, as they or any of them have or ought to have, of, in or to the said lands, tenements and hereditaments.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Pennsylvania Statutes Title 21 P.S. Deeds and Mortgages § 254. Deeds of husband and wife made prior to act of 1770 - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/pa/title-21-ps-deeds-and-mortgages/pa-st-sect-21-254/
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