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Provisions
of 12th sec,
of 1785, ch.
73, ex-
tended.

Provisions
of 12th and
13th secs,
of 1818, cb.
193. ex-
tended.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1831.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the provisions of the twelfth
section of the act, passed at December session, of the year se-
venteen hundred and eighty-five, chapter seventy-two, so far as
they concern and confer the powers of the court of chancery to
decree a sale, be and they are hereby extended to cases where
two or more persons all of full age, shall have any interest or
estate, or benefit, jointly, or in common, or otherwise, concur-
rently in or out of any lands, tenements or hereditaments.
SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the provisions of the twelfth
and thirteenth sections of the act of December session, of the
year eighteen hundred and eighteen, chapter one hundred and
ninety-three, shall be deemed and taken to extend to minors
residing out of this state, to, in, or by, whom any lands, tene-
ments, hereditaments, or personal estate, shall accrue, vest, or
be claimable, by descent, devise, bequest, deed, gift, purchase
or otherwise.

Explanato-
ry of 13th
sec. of 1816
ch. 154.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, (there being doubts as to the true
import of the provision) That the thirteenth section of the act,
passed at December session, of the year eighteen hundred and
sixteen, chapter one hundred and fifty-four, shall be deemed
and taken, to mean that the chancellor, or the county courts
shall, and may exercise all the powers in said act conferred, and
provided in all cases where an infant or infants are, or shall be
seized of a reversion, or a remainder so as to authorize a decree
for the sale of such remainder or reversion, and so as to authorize
a decree for the sale of the estate, and interest of the tenant of the
particular estate, or of the holders of the prior remainders where
the assent of such holders or tenants shall be given, and the
estate or interest in remainder, or reversion aforesaid, of such
infant or infants in which case the said chancellor or county
courts shall adjudge such part of the proceeds of the sale to
bo paid, or the annual interest of the proceeds to be secured
and paid to such tenant or holders as shall be judged equitable
by the chancellor or county courts, and in manner and for pe-
riods as shall be determined most proper.

Preamble
relative to
sec. 2, of
1797, ch.
114.

AND WHEREAS, by the act of November session, of the year
seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, chapter one hundred and
fourteen, section second, provision is made for the appearance
in the cases therein mentioned, of the person or persons who
would have been the sole heir, or only heirs in the case, the
act to direct descents had not been made, and no provision
exists for the event of such sole heir, or only heirs, or any of
them, residing out of this state; therefore,

Authority
to order no-
lice by

publication.

SEC. 10. Be it enacted, That in case of such non-residence,
the chancellor or county court may, as to the said non-resident,
defendant or defendants, order notice to be given by publication
in manner and under the same limitations as in said section is