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The Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, 1924
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478 ARTICLE 16.

prescribe, that the prayer of the said petitioner shall be granted, shall order
and decree that the name of such person be changed as prayed in said
petition; and upon" the passage of such decree, the true and legal name of
such person shall be that determined by the said decree; and a copy of the
said decree, under the seal of said court, shall be sufficient and legal evidence
of the facts therein stated. A petition'provided for in this section may be
filed on behalf of any infant residing in this State, by the father or mother
of such infant, or in the case of the death of the father and mother of said
infant, by the guardian of such infant; the costs of the proceedings pro-
vided for in this section shall be regulated by the said court, and shall be
paid by the petitioner.

As to change of the name of an adopted child, see sec. 77.

An. Code, sec. 111. 1908, ch. 101.

114. 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 herein-
after provided for, or in any other suit or action, said condition or con-
ditions 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 consequence 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 prop-
erty 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 men-
tioned in this section is located, shall have full power and authority, in its
discretion, 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 complying with
said condition, conditions or terms.

As to when charitable devises or bequests are not void by reason of uncertainty
as to who the donees are, see art. 93, sec. 337.

An. Code, sec. 112. 1908, ch. 101.

115. 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 afore-
said 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

 

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