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APPENDIX——CHANCERY LAWS.
of such land, or the party who claims to be paid the purchase
money for the land so sold, and upon making the attorney-general
a party, for the chancellor to proceed according to the established
principles of equity and the rules of the court of chancery, to hear
and determine the equity between the parties, and the chancellor
shall thereupon proceed to decree to the parties legally entitled
thereto, the money still remaining due for the purchase of the said
land, in case any shall be due, and to decree a conveyance of the
said land, and in case none of the said money shall be due, or in
case the party shall comply with the decree of the court, by paying
the money decreed, that then and in such case the chancellor shall,
in the name of the state of Maryland, convey to the said party or
parties having a legal claim to the said land, all the right and estate
which is vested in any British subject, or in the state of Maryland
by virtue of the several acts of assembly of this state.
See 1802, ch. 100, s. 11. |
NOV. 1805.
CHAP. 55.
In certain cases
chancellor may
convey, &c. |
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CHAP. XCIX.
An Act to ascertain the mode of completing the title to Purchasers
of
certain Confiscated British Property, and for other
purposes. Lib.
TH. No. 1, fol. 149.
See 1785, ch. 66. |
Passed Jan. 27,
1806. |
WHEREAS the commissioners heretofore appointed to
preserve
and make sale of confiscated British property within this state,
have, in many instances, executed deeds of conveyance to the purchasers
of such property, or their assignees, for lands sold by the
said commissioners as aforesaid, which deeds have been inoperative;
therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the chancellor shall be and he is hereby authorised and required,
on application of any person holding or claiming lands in virtue of
any deed of the said commissioners, and on receiving satisfactory
proof that such claimant has an equitable title to the lands claimed
or held by him, to execute a deed, in the name of the state of Maryland,
to such claimant, his heirs and assigns, for the lands to
which he is so entitled, and such deed, when recorded among the
land records of the county wherein such lands lie, shall be sufficient
effectually to transfer all the right, title and claim, of any British
subject, to such lands, or which became vested in this state by any
act of assembly heretofore passed.
See ch. 93. |
Chancellor to
make deeds in
certain cases. |
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NOVEMBER SESSION, 1806.
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CHAP. LV.
An Act concerning the Chancery Court. Lib. TH. No. 1,
fol. 251.
A supplement, 1811, ch. 189. |
Passed Jan. 3, 1807. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
in any suit in the chancery court in which the chancellor for the
time being may have been council, (a) or have given his opinion,
(a) See 1805, ch. 65, s. 19. |
Chief judge of
third judicial district
to hear and
determine certain
suits. |
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