488 ARTICLE 16.

decedent. The provisions of this section to apply to all cases including
bills of review, bills of interpleader and supplemental bills.

An order of publication held fatally defective because it warned the unknown
heirs of Abraham Hardester to appear, instead of those of Benjamin Hardester.
Hardester v. Sharretts, 84 Md. 149.

See notes to sec. 142.

An. Code, sec. 132. 1908, ch. 96.

139. In all cases where a bill in chancery may be filed for the sale,
lease, mortgage or other disposition of land or to affect any funds which
would descend as real estate, and the owner of the whole or of any part
thereof or of any interest therein, whether resident or non-resident, is
dead, and it is not known to the complainant or complainants in said bill
whether or not said deceased person or persons left any heirs, or, if there
are such heirs, who they are or whether they be residents of this State, or
non-residents, the said heirs may in such bill of complaint be described
as the unknown heirs of such deceased person or persons, and the said
bill of complaint shall pray that they be proceeded against as non-residents.
In all such cases the order of publication shall issue as of course, in the
manner now, or which may be hereafter prescribed by law, for the issu-
ance of the order of publication against non-residents, and shall be
published and the publication thereof proved as in cases of order of pub-
lication against non-residents. When such order of publication shall have
been issued and published as aforesaid, all persons who may be the heirs
at law of such deceased person or persons, whether they be residents or
non-residents, shall be bound by the decree which may be passed by the
court in said case, and all the right, title and interest in said land, or in
said fund, owned by said decedent shall pass and be divested in the decree
that may be passed in said cause.
See notes to sec. 130.

An. Code, sec. 133. 1904, sec. 125. 1890, ch. 472, sec. 112A.

140. Where a non-resident of this State has died, upon whose personal
estate no letters testamentary or of administration have been issued by any
orphans' court or register of wills of this State, but upon which estate such
letters have been issued by a court of probate or other proper authority in
some other State, territory or foreign country, it shall be sufficient in any
case in chancery in this State now pending or hereafter to be instituted, in
which said decedent or his executor or administrator was or would be a
proper party defendant, to make such foreign executor or administrator
a party defendant thereto, and the making of such foreign executor or
administrator a party defendant to such case shall give the court the same
jurisdiction over the personal estate of such decedent as if an executor or
administrator of such decedent to whom letters testamentary or of admin-
istration had been granted by an orphans' court or register of wills of this
State had been made such party defendant, and said foreign executor or
administrator may in any such case, if a non-resident of this State, be pro-
ceeded against as provided for in cases of other non-residents, or if within
this State, by service of summons upon him, or said foreign executor or