ART. 66] VENDORS' LIEN. 1531

with right of necessary ingress or egress; and provided further, that
these sections 26, 27 and 28 shall not apply to deeds or instruments
as aforesaid existing on April 7, 1900.

1904, art. 66, sec. 29. 1900, ch. 656. 1902, ch. 102. 1904, ch. 78.
29. All mortgages and assignments of mortgages defectively sworn
to and recorded in this State prior to March 15, 1904, before any officer
authorized by the laws of this State to administer oaths or to take affi-
davits shall be as valid to all intents and purposes as if the said mort-
gages or assignments of mortgages had been sworn to in conformity with
law.

See art. 21, sections 86 and 87.

1904, art. 21, sec. 87. 1888, art. 21. sec. 84. 1882, ch. 215, secs. 1-2.
1910, ch. 588 (p. 64).

30. Any assignment of any mortgage, which assignment has been
heretofore executed and recorded, but which has not been sealed
and in which no mention of any seal has been made or in which
either of such defects exists, shall be and they are hereby made valid
to all intents and purposes as if said assignment had been in such mat-
ters in full conformity with the law in force at the time of such execu-
tion; provided, that any such assignment is in other respects legal and
valid; and provided further, that nothing in this section shall affect
the rights of any bona fide purchaser or creditor without notice, who
becomes so prior to April 8, 1910.

This section is a duplicate of art. 21, sec. 89.

Vendors' Lien.

1910, ch. 216, sec. 30 (p. 203).

31. When any real or personal estate or property shall be hereafter
transferred or conveyed, and the purchase money, or any part thereof,
shall remain unpaid at the time of the transfer or conveyance, the
vendor shall not thereby have a lien or charge on the same for any
other or different sum or sums of money than the sum or sums that
shall appear to be due on the face of the deed or instrument conveying
the same, and be therein, together with the time or times set for the
payment thereof, specified, and recited; provided, however, nothing
herein contained shall be construed to affect in any way any mortgage
given by a purchaser or purchasers to secure the payment of all or any
part or parts of the purchase money, or in any way affect or postpone
the lien of any landlord upon goods or chattels for the satisfaction or
security of rent due or accruing.

See sec. 2 and notes. As to purchase money mortgages, see sec. 4.

As to the enforcement of vendors' liens in equity, see art 16, sec. 223.

See art. 83, sec. 12.