Northampton Borough's Appeal

Opinion by

Keller, P. J.,

The purpose of a validating statute is to cure past errors, omissions and neglects, and thus to make valid what, before its enactment, was invalid. It grants no ‘indulgence’ for the correction of future errors and neglects. Similarly a statute authorizing the reinstate- merit of liens and judgments on tax and municipal claims, which had lost their lien, — being in the nature of a validating act — must be restricted to claims and judgments which had lost their Hen at the date the act took effect; it cannot be extended to claims and judgments whose liens are thereafter…