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from the person from whom they derive such remainder, reversion or real
estate ; such notice to be given as the chancellor shall think proper.
By 1799, ch. 79, section 4, in bills filed against infants out of the state,
there shall be the same proceedings as if the infants were of age, subject to
revision in the manner therein prescribed.
By 1785, ch. 78, on a person's dying seized of lands, &c. in this state,
liable to be escheated, such lands, &c. may be decreed to be sold for the
payment of his debts, if he has not left personal property sufficient.
By 1791, ch. (50, real estate, devised or descending to non-residents, may
be decreed to be sold for the payment of debts. Likewise the real estates,
or equitable interest therein, of persons dying without any known heirs or
devisees ; and provision is thereby made for obtaining the legal title. By
1797, ch. 114, on a bill being filed against the heirs of a person deceased,
and the person appearing who would have been heir if the act 1786 to direct
descents had not passed, the chancellor may order notice to be given, (by
publication,) to the other heirs, and may thereupon proceed in the suit,
reserving to such heir the liberty of appearing, &c. within a limited time.
By 1795, ch 88, sec. 2, the chancellor may decree the sale of any equita-
ble title or claim to land in any case in which he might decree the sale of a
legal title ; and by section 3 he mny decree the equitable interest or title in
land devised or descending to infants, for the payment of the debts of the
ancestor, &c.
By 1816, ch. 154, and 1818, ch. 193, sec. 7, chancery courts may
decree a sale of minors' estate when they shall deem it conducive to their
interest. By the last act, the provisions of the act of 1816, ch. 154, are
extended to personal property.
By 1835, ch. 380, the power of courts of equity to decree sales of infants'
estates, to extend to all cases of trusts for infants, and to all such cases of
trusts concerning grounds in the city of Baltimore.
By 1835, ch. 367, may decree exchanges of property in Baltimore, where
minors have an interest.
By 1818, ch. 193, sec. 2, the provisons of the above section, in relation to
the sales of real estate, is extended to defendants of full age.
By 1818, ch. 193, sec. 8, a sale of the real estate may be decreed in the
discretion of the court in order to save the personal estate, with the consent
of all parties, and in such cases, the court may allow the widow a portion
of the purchase money in lieu of dower, by 1819, ch. 182.
See section 9 of this act, as to selling on credit.
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SEC. 6. And be it enacted. That the chancellor shall have full
power and authority in all cases to superintend, direct and
govern, the affairs and concerns of persons who are or may be
lunatics or idiots, both as to the care of their persons and ma-
nagement of their estates, and may appoint a committee, trustee
or trustees, for such persons, and may make such orders and
decrees respecting their persons and estates as to him may seem
proper, and may, upon application of any creditor or creditors of
any person who is idiot, lunatic, or non compos mentis, and
being satisfied of the justice of the claim, and that it will be for
the benefit and advantage of the estate of such person being non
compos mentis, to discharge and pay such claim, and that there
is no other means of so doing than by selling part of the estate of
such person, appoint a committee, trustee or trustees, for such per-
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May direct
the affairs
of persons
lunatic, &c.
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