1831.

LAWS OP MARYLAND:

CHAP. 311.

ducted in manner as is lawful in equity, in cases of partition

of freehold estate, and subject to such terms and reserva-

tions as to paying proportions of the rents, if any, and

in other respects, as to said court shall seem equitable and

proper.

Chancery court &c

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That in all cases where by the

courts of equity
may order lease in-

act, passed at December session of the year eighteen hun-

stead of sell estate,
in the city of Bal-

dred and sixteen, chapter one hundred and fifty four, and

timore

by the act, passed December session of the year eighteen

hundred and eighteen, chapter one hundred and ninety-

three,or under the provisions of this act, it may be lawful for

the chancellor of any county court, sitting as a court of

equity, to decree the sale of any lands, tenements or heredi-

taments of any infant or infants, it shall and may be law-

ful for the chancellor or any county court, instead of such

sale, to decree that such lands, tenements or heredita-

ments, or any part thereof, if situate in the city of Balti-

more, be demised for a term of years, renewable forever

or otherwise, and yielding such rents, and subject to such

terms, covenants and conditions, as to said chancellor or

court, shall seem proper, and as in the premises, shall be

finally ratified and confirmed by said chancellor or court,

and said demises shall take place and be made and execut-

ed in manner, and under such terms and regulations as said

chancellor or court shall order or decree.

Pdwer of decree-

Sec 3. And be it enacted. That said powers of decree-

ing1 demises ex-
tended.

ing demises shall extend to cases where the infant or infants,

shall be seized of a remainder or rev ei sion; Provided, the

assent of the tenant of the particular estate, and of subse

quent or intermediate lemainder men, or of the reversion-

ers, whose estate or estates shall make up and embrace the

whole fee, be obtained to the demise or demises, or the

decree therefor, and also to the case where the infant or

infants, be tenants of the particulai estate for years or life

or otherwise; and where an infant or infants as aforesaid,

shall be presumptively or apparently, for the time being,

entitled to any contingent or other remainder or reversion,

such infant or infants shall be entitled for, and in respect of

the estate of such remainder or reversion, to claim as afore-

said, a decree for a demise as aforesaid, and any person of

full age apparently or presumptively, for the time being,

entitled to any contingent or othei remainder or reversion,

shall be competent to assent as aforesaid, for and in behalf

of the state, of any such remainder or reversion; and after

any demises decreed and executed as aforesaid, or author-

ised by any of the provisions of this act, the estate of the

infant or infants in the rents reserved, or the reversionary