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CLERKS OF COURTS. [ART. 18.

and any person or persons is or are entitled to a
remainder or remainders vested or contingent on an
executor's devise or devises, or any other interest
vested or contingent in the same land, on application
of any of the parties in interest, a court of equity may,
if all the parties in being are parties to the proceeding,

Decree of court

decree a sale or lease thereof, if it shall appear to be
advantageous to the parties concerned, and shall direct
the investment of the proceeds of sale or the limita-
tions of the leasehold interest, as the case may be, so
as to enure in like manner as by the original grant to
the use of the same parties who would be entitled to
the land sold or leased, and all such decrees if all the
persons or parties who would be entitled if the con-
tingency had happened at the date of the decree, shall
bind all persons whether in being or not, who claim or
may claim any interest in said land under any of the
parties to said decree, or under any person from whom
any of the parties to such decree claim, or from or
under or by the original deed or will by which such
particular, limited or conditional estates, with remain-
ders or executory devises were created.

In force and approved March 30, 1868.