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384 CHANCERY. [ART. 16
provided for in this section shall be regulated by the said court, and
shall be paid by the petitioner.
As to a change of the name of an adopted child, see sec. 75.
1908, ch. 101.
111. In all cases where real or personal property shall become or
shall have become vested in any educational or charitable corporation
by deed, will, testament or codicil, subject to conditions subsequent or
to terms of gift which said corporation is required to agree to, and to
a limitation over (upon breach of such condition or failure to observe
said terms) to some other person or persons or corporation, then if, in
the proceeding hereinafter provided for, or in any other suit or action,
said condition or conditions shall be held to be too remote (under the
rule against perpetuities) to be operative, or if it be held that there is
no right of entry, on the breach of such condition or conditions, in the
person or persons or corporation to which said property is limited over
as aforesaid, or that said limitation over is too remote, and if in conse-
quence thereof the corporation aforesaid in which said property shall be
vested would be able but for this and the two following sections to hold
said property and disregard the conditions or terms on which the gift,
devise or bequest was made, in all such cases the court or courts of
equity having jurisdiction in the place where said property shall be
located, or in the county or city in which the principal office or place
of business of said educational or charitable corporation first mentioned
in this section is located, shall have full power and authority, in its dis-
cretion, to enforce compliance by said corporation with said conditions
or terms of gift, devise or bequest, so that it may not be in the power
of said corporation to continue to hold said property without also com-
plying with said condition, conditions or terms.
As to when charitable devises or bequests are not void by reason of uncer-
tainty as to who the donees are, see art. 93. sec. 32S.
1908, ch. 101.
112. In any instance aforesaid, any relative of the testator, or of
the grantor or donor, if such grantor or donor be deceased in the name
of such relative or the grantor or donor, if living in his own name, or
the State's Attorney for the county or city in which one of the courts
of equity aforesaid has jurisdiction, as aforesaid, in the name of the
State of Maryland, may file and prosecute a bill or bills in equity to
procure the passage of such decree or decrees, order or orders, as may
be necessary or appropriate to the enforcement or compliance with said
condition, conditions or terms, and that it shall be the duty of the State's
Attorney aforesaid, after notice to him of disregard or non-compliance
of such corporation with said condition, conditions or terms, to pro-
ceed as aforesaid, unless said grantor or donor be living, or unless a
relative of said testator or of a deceased grantor or donor shall file and
bona fide prosecute such bill or bills, and that the costs and expenses of
such proceedings shall be borne by said corporation.
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