¶1The case of the petitioner is not within the act of 1764. That act provides for the case where a sheriff has made no deed; but the late sheriff has executed a deed to the petitioner, which it is said has not been acknowledged in due form of law. The acknowledgment is no part of the deed; it is only the sanction of the Court to the act of the sheriff. The practice has been for sheriffs, after their term of office has expired, to acknowledge deeds for lands sold by them, and executed whilst they were in office; and the Court is of opinion that such acknowledgments are sufficient. •
6 Binn. 254
Adams v. Thomas
Decided March 31, 1814
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1814-03-31
TN this case, the lands of the defendant had been sold by Jabez Hyde, late sheriff of Luzerne county, under a testatum venditioni, issued out of this Court returnable to December Term 1813. The purchase money having been paid, the sheriff made a deed for the lands, to Henry Drinker the purchaser; and acknowledged the same on the 29th of October 1813, at the Wilksbarre Court of Common Pleas.
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Decided 1814-03-31
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