CHANCERY.] PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.

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Land subject to escheat may be decreed to be sold for the payment of

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debts, where personal properly sufficient has not been left — 1785,

ch. 78, sec. 1, ..........

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Manner of decreeing a conveyance where a person having contracted

in writing for the sale of any real estate shall die seized thereof

intestate, and without heirs of the whole or of the half blood — 1785,

ch. 78, sec. 1, . .

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Directions respecting suits for conveyances against non-residents —

1787, ch. 30, sec. 2, p. 243 ; 1792, ch. 41, sec. 2, ...

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The chancellor to direct the sale of lands belonging to minors, resi-

dents of any other state, in the same manner as in the case of mi-

nors residents of this state — 1789, ch. 46, sec. 2, .

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Notice to be given — 1789, ch. 46, sec. 3, .....

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The chancellor to direct the sale of all lands, &c. or any reversion or

remainder thereon, belonging to minors residents out of the state,

and the United States— 1790, ch. 38, sec. 2, ....

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Notice to be given, &c. — 1790, ch. 38, sec. 3, .....

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The chancellor, on application by a representative of a person deceased,

who shall have contracted for the sale and conveyance of lands,

and not performed the same, and shall have devised or left them to

descend to persons under nge, &c. if the said representatives are

immediately interested in having a specific performance, shall de-

cree the same as in other cases by the act of 1773, ch. 7 — 1791,

ch. 79, sec, 4, ..........

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Manner of vesting the legal title and estate where a person having

contracted for the sale of lands, &c. and not having conveyed them,

dies without leaving an heir known of, and capable of inheriting

his real estate— 1792, ch. 41, sec. 4, p. 286; sec. 4, ...

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The chancellor may decree the sale of real estates devised or descend-

ed to non-residents, &c. — 1794, ch. 60, sec. 2, ....

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Likewise the real estates or equitable interests therein, of persons dying

without any known heirs or devisees — 1794, ch. 60, sec. 3, .

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Provision made for obtaining the legal title — 1794, ch. 60, sec. 4,

p. 316; sec. 5, p. 316 ; sec. 7, .......

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On patents issuing for lands escheated, the creditors empowered to file

their bill against the state, and the proceedings therein directed —

1794, ch. 60, sec. 6, .........

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The chancellor may order and decree partition to be made in case any

infant, idiot, &c, hath or shall have a joint interest or interest in

common with any other person in lands, &c. — 1794, ch. 00, sec. 8,

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Directions for decreeing a foreclosure or sale where the mortgagor has

removed, and his situation or that of his representatives cannot be

ascertained — 1794, ch. 60, sec. 9, .....

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The chancellor may decree a sale of the equitable interest of persons

against whom there are judgments or decrees — 1794, ch. 60,

sec. 10, ...........

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Directions respecting proceedings, and notice against defendants living

out of the state— 1795, ch. 88, sec. 1, p. 329 ; 1799, ch. 79, sec. 1, 3,

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