Section 28
SEC. 28. Instruments and Acts Validated—All mortgages of any vessel of any part thereof, and all documentations, recordations, indorsements and indexing thereof, and proceedings incidental thereto made or done, prior to the effectivity of this Decree are declared valid to the extent they would have been valid if the port or ports at which it should have been documented in accordance with law; and this section is declared retroactive so as to accomplish such validations: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive any person of any vested right.