No seal shall be required to any instrument conveying lands, tenements or hereditaments; and any instrument purporting to convey lands, tenements or hereditaments may be referred to as, and shall be, a deed, though no seal be affixed thereto; and the word “covenant” used in any deed or instrument to which no seal is affixed, shall have the same effect as though a seal had been affixed thereto.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 34-11-2
Seal not required in conveyances
G.L. 1896, ch. 202, § 4; G.L. 1909, ch. 253, § 4; G.L. 1923, ch. 297, § 4; G.L. 1938, ch. 435, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 34-11-2.
Official source: Rhode Island General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Rhode Island statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.