CHAPTER DCXII.

AN ACT in relation to Mortgages.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware, in General Assembly met,

That the release by the mortgagee or his assigns, executed at the executed at the instance of the mortgagor, his heirs or assigns, of any part of the mortgaged premises, shall not be deemed, or taken to operate as a release or discharge of any other part of the lands included in such mortgage, but such other lands shall be and remain subject to the lien of the said mortgage, and execution may be had thereof in the same manner as if the mortgage had originally included only the said lands. Every such release shall be under hand and seal, and shall be acknowledged in the same manner as provided by law for the acknowledgment of deeds, and shall be recorded in the recorder's office of the county where the lands lie, within sixty days after execution thereof, or the same shall be void.
Passed at Dover, February 22, 1859.