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It shall be lawful for any person or persons, body politic and corporate, his, her, or their agent or attorney, who may own or have any interest in or claim to, upon, or against lands and tenements heretofore supposed to be within the limits of the State of Delaware and which are now found by the said survey to be within the limits of the State of Pennsylvania, to procure copies, duly certified and authenticated according to the laws of the State of Delaware, of all deeds, conveyances, assurances, agreements, or other instruments of writing affecting or in anywise relating to any of said lands and tenements, or the titles thereof, and which shall have been duly recorded in the proper office for recording like papers or instruments within the county of New Castle in the State of Delaware, and have the same recorded in the office for the recording of deeds in the county within this State in which the same are now found, as aforesaid, to be situate; and it is hereby made the duty of the recorder of deeds of said last mentioned county or counties to receive and record the same on the payment of the usual fees for like services, and, when so recorded, the same shall have the like force and efficacy, validity, and effect as if the same had been originally therein recorded at the time the same were recorded in the State of Delaware; and copies, duly certified and authenticated of such records so made within this State, shall be evidence in all cases and for all purposes for which the original papers or instruments, or copies of the original record thereof, would be evidence in this State, and as if such record, hereby authorized, had been made from the original papers themselves.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Pennsylvania Statutes Title 21 P.S. Deeds and Mortgages § 581. Statutes Title to lands supposed to be in Delaware and found to be in Pennsylvania; recording - last updated January 01, 2022 | https://codes.findlaw.com/pa/title-21-ps-deeds-and-mortgages/pa-st-sect-21-581/
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