LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1831.

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full age apparently or presumptively, for the time being, enti-
tled to any contingent or other remainder or reversion, shall be
competent to assent as aforesaid, for and in behalf of the state,
of any such remainder or reversion ; and after any demises
decreed and executed as aforesaid, or authorized by any of the
provisions of this act, the estate of the infant or infants in the
rents reserved, or the reversionary interest of such infant or in-
fants, shall be deemed and taken to be subject to the operation
of said acts, in the same manner, and to the same effect as lands
or tenements, in the actual seized, or possession of such infant
or infants.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That where the person, or per-
sons required to assent as aforesaid, shall be an infant or infants,
or being of full age, shall refuse such assent or shall not appear
to have given it, such person or persons being made defendant
or defendants, the chancellor, or court, shall on consideration of
the pleadings and evidence in the case, determine and accord-

Case of in-
fants — or
refusal, &c.

ingly decree, whether a demise as aforesaid shall be made,
which demise decreed and made in manner as is herein before
specified and provided, shall avail as if said infant or infants
were of full age, and had assented as aforesaid, or as if the per-
son or persons aforesaid of full age had assented.

Courts em-
powered to
decree.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted. That the chancellor or county
court aforesaid, shall have the same authority to decree a
demise or demises under the rules and regulations as aforesaid,
where the tenant of the particular estate for life or for years, or
for other estate, shall be of full age, and shall pray for such

Case of per-
son praying
shall be of
full age.

decree; and all the provisions above enacted in respect to the
necessity and capacity, and competency of assent, and the cases
where the person or persons to assent shall be infants, or where
the person, or persons of full age shall refuse to assent, or shall
not appear to have assented, shall apply to the case of said
tenant of full age.

Power to
decree.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the said acts passed at
December session, of the year eighteen hundred and sixteen,
chapter one hundred and fifty-four, and at December session, of
the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, chapter one hundred
and ninety-three, and the second section of the act, passed at
December session, of the year eighteen hundred and nineteen,
chapter one hundred and forty-four, and all the provisions of
this act, shall be deemed and taken to extend to all cases where
two or more infants or whore they, or any of them shall bo non-
residents of this state, shall be jointly, or in common, or other-
wise concurrently seized, or possessed of any lands, tenements,
hereditaments or personal estate, or of any joint estate, or any
estate in common therein.

Provisions
of sundry
acts ex-
tended.