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Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland 1846-1854
Volume 200, Volume 3, Page 288   View pdf image (33K)
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288 HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY.
both personal and real, until some one having right to the
same shall appear, to whom it can be delivered, or until further
order of this Court in the premises, and recommending the said
Ellicott as the proper person to be appointed such receiver;
The Chancellor on the same day, but previous to the filing of
this petition, made the following remarks.]
THE CHANCELLOR:
Upon looking more carefully into the question affecting the
authority of the committee, after the death of the lunatic, I am
satisfied that his office is determined by that event; and that
the only power which the Court retains over the committee as
such, is to compel him to account and to deliver possession of
the property, as the Court shall direct. But the committee is
to retain the possession, and preserve the property from in-
jury, until some person shall appear properly authorized to
receive it from him. In the mean time, if there is reason to
apprehend delay in ascertaining who are entitled to the pos-
session, a receiver may be appointed upon the application of
the parties in interest, as was done in the case of the Duchess
of Norfolk, cited in Shelford on Lunacy, 210.
[Accordingly, on the 9th of February, 1853, the Chancellor
passed an order, appointing the said Ellicott a receiver, " with
full power and authority to take charge and possession of the
estate of the said Rachel Colvin deceased, real, personal, and
mixed, now in the possession of the committee of the said de-
ceased under a former order of this Court, and to hold and
manage the same in all respects as the said committee, during
the continuance of his office and authority, was empowered to
do." The order then requires him to give bond in the penalty
of $30,000 for the faithful performance of his duties as auch
receiver. "And power is hereby expressly reserved to this
Court to change, modify, or annul this order, and to discharge
the receiver hereby appointed, and to pass all such orders and
decrees in the premises as may hereafter be deemed neces-
sary and proper." Subsequently to this, Richard 0. Warford

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