LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1832.

1095

In any conveyance or lease executed, and acknowledged in form,
for passing feme covert's real estate, of any lands, tenements, or
hereditaments; and the court of chancery, or any county court,
as a court of equity, shall, as concerns such feme covert's dower,

In respect
to dower,
join in con-
veyance or
lease.

deem such conveyance or lease equitable, expedient, or proper,
the said court, on application by any of the parties interested,
and on proper parties, defendants being made, may, according
to the rules of equity, proceed to adjudge and decree that such

If court
deem it
equitable.

conveyance or lease be confirmed, and made and declared valid,
from the time of execution of the same to every effect, intent,
and purpose, as if the feme covert, at the said execution were
of the full age of twenty-one years.

May con-
firm such
conveyance

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the bond required to be
given by the second section of the act, passed at November
session of the year seventeen hundred and eighty-five, chapter
seventy-two, entitled, an act, for enlarging the powers of the
high court of chancery, in cases where a foreclosure of any
mortgage on sale of any land, shall be applied for in which any
infant shall be interested, may be given to and in the name of
the state of Maryland, as obligee and the form of such bond and
the security therein, shall be such as the chancellor, or county
court, or any of the judges thereof, as the case may be, shall
approve or prescribe; and every infant who, at the time of the

Bond re-
quired un-
der act
of 1785,
ch. 72, sec.
2,. respect-
ing foreclo-
sure of
mortgage,
for sale of
land of
infants.
Name of
the state
used.

decree for the sale or foreclosure of the mortgage of any land, or
of any estate or interest therein shall have any right or claim to
any part or share of any such land, estate or interest, and all
persons claiming under any such infant, shall be entitled to in-
stitute and prosecute in the name of the state, for the use and at
the cost of such person or persons, an action or actions at law on
such bond, or proceed by bill or other proper proceeding in
equity, in his, her or their own name or names against the
principal and sureties in such bond or any of them, and recover
therein for any breach of the condition of such bond as fully
beneficially and effectually, as if such bond had been given to
and in the name of such infant ; Provided always, that such

Proceedings
thereon
regulated.

action shall be brought, or suit instituted by the infant within
three years after he or she shall have attained the age of twenty-
one years, or in case of the death of such infant, by his or her
legal representative within one year after such death.

Time
limited.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That in every case in the court of
chancery, or in any of the county courts as courts of equity in
this state, where the defendants, or any of them shall be infants
residing out of this state, in any other of the United States ; on

Case where
defendants
are infante
non-
residents.

the prayer or petition of the complainant, a commission may be
issued without any other process to any two persons, in the dis-
cretion of the chancellor, or any judge of the equity court, as
commissioners authorizing them or either of them to appoint a

Commis-
sion issue.