§47‑58. Before judges of Supreme Court or superior courts or clerksbefore 1889.
Wherever the judges of theSupreme Court or the superior court, or the clerks or deputy clerks of thesuperior court, or courts of pleas and quarter sessions, mistaking theirpowers, have essayed previously to the first day of January, 1889, to take theprobate of any instrument required or allowed by law to be registered, and theprivy examination of femes covert, whose names are signed to such deeds, andhave ordered said deeds to registration, and the same have been registered, allsuch probates, privy examinations and registrations are validated. (1871‑2,c. 200, s. 1; Code, s. 1260; 1889, c. 252; 1891, c. 484; Rev., s. 1009; C.S.,s. 3339.)