Section 1

Section 1. Be it therefore enacted, That no grant, bargain and sale, lease, release, feoffment, deed, conveyance or assurance whatsoever, heretofore bona fide made and executed by husband and wife in manner aforesaid, of any lands, tenements and hereditaments whatsoever, shall be deemed, held or adjudged invalid or defective in law, or avoided or prejudiced; but that all and every the said grants, bargains and sales, releases feoffments, deeds, conveyances and assurances, shall be, and are hereby declared to be, good and valid in law for transferring and passing the estates, rights, titles and interests of such husband and wife, according to the true intent and meaning of the words thereof; saving to every person and persons, bodies politic and corporate whatsoever (other than to the said husband and wife), their heirs and successors, all such rights, titles, estates, claims and interests, as they or any of them have or ought to have, of, in or to the said lands, tenements and hereditaments.