DEC. 1816.
CHAP. 154. |
APPENDIX——CHANCERY LAWS.
the said commissioners shall proceed in manner and form as is directed
by the said acts, to lay off and locate the widow's dower, in
and to the said lands, tenements and hereditaments, and the said
commissioners shall make return of the said location to the chancellor,
or county courts, as the case may be, for rejection or confirmation,
as in other cases under the said act, and of the several
supplements thereto. |
Vacancy of trustee,
how to be supplied. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any trustee
or trustees appointed
in and under this law shall depart this life, then and in
such case it shall and may be lawful for the chancellor, or the county
courts, as the case may be, to appoint a trustee or trustees, in
the place of such trustee so dying, and the said trustee
or trustees shall execute a bond in the manner prescribed by this
law. |
Powers of chancellor,
&c. where
infants are seized
of a reversion, &c. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the chancellor,
or the county
courts of this state, shall and may exercise all and every the powers
herein provided in all cases where an infant or infants are
seized of a reversion, dependant upon an estate for life, and upon
the assent of the tenant for life, for the sale thereof, to order and
adjudge the annual interest, or such part thereof as they may
deem equitable, to be paid over to such a tenant for life, during his
life. |
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Passed Feb. 4, 1818. |
DECEMBER SESSION, 1817.
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CHAP. CXIX.
An Act concerning the Judgments and Judicial Proceedings of the
Courts of Justice in this State, and to provide for
the completion of
the Records in certain cases. Lib. TH. No.
6, fol. 20. |
Decrees, &c. in
chancery court,
unrecorded, may
be certified, &c. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all cases of
decrees and final
proceedings rendered and made in the court of chancery of this state,
which according to law ought to have been recorded, but nevertheless
remain unrecorded by the registers whose duty it was to record
the same, it shall and may be lawful for the register of the
said court of chancery, for the time being, and he is hereby authorised
and required, on the application of any person or persons being
interested in any such decree or final proceeding, and having
occasion to use the same, to grant and certify an exemplification or
official copy of a record thereof in like manner as if such decree or
final proceeding had been duly recorded and signed by the register
whose duty it was to enrol the same; and the minutes of the court,
the entries on the dockets, and the original papers and documents
filed in such case, shall be sufficient vouchers to the said register
for entering the style of the court by which, and the term and year
in which, such decree or final proceeding was rendered or made,
and for making a due and proper record thereof. |
Officers, &c.
whose papers remain
unrecorded,
to proceed to record
the same. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the executors or
administrators
of the officers now deceased, who in their life-time were the respective
clerks of the general courts for the western and eastern
shores, or the securities of such deceased officers, whose papers
and judicial proceedings remain unrecorded, and each and every
officer now living, who lately was the clerk or register of any
court of justice within this state, and has been removed or has resigned, |
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