1422 TESTAMENTARY LAW. [ART. 93.
shall delay the granting of letters until a decision shall be had on
the petition; and in case the letters shall have been granted, and
any person shall file such petition, and the court on hearing both
sides—that is to say, the petitioner and the grantee of such
letters—shall decide against the probate, the letters aforesaid shall
be revoked, and the power of the party under the letters shall
cease; and the said will shall not be proved in any other county,
unless the decision be reversed on appeal.
Harris v. Pue, 39 Md. 535. Worthington v. Gittings, 56 Md. 542. Johns v.
Hodges, 62 Md. 525. State v. Smith, 64 Md. 101. Emmert v. Stouffer, 64 Md.
543.
P. G. L., (1860,) art. 93, sec. 321. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 2, sec. 11.
333. In case the adjudication of the orphans' court to whom
any will or codicil shall be exhibited for probate shall be. against
the said will or codicil, it shall not be received for probate in any
other county.
Johns v. Hodges, 62 Md. 525
Ibid. sec. 323. 1831, ch. 315, sec. 1. 1888, ch. 453.
334. In proving a will or codicil concerning real estate, all
the witnesses thereto shall be examined, if their attendance can
be had.
Warford v. Colvin, 14 Md. 532 Worthington v. Gittings, 56 Md. 542. Johns
v. Hodges, 62 Md. 525.
Ibid. sec. 324. 1785, ch. 46, secs. 2-4
335. A copy of the record of any will which the laws of the
State or country where the same may be executed, require to be
recorded or registered, and which hath been recorded or regis-
tered agreeably to such laws, under the hand of the keeper of
such record or register, and the seal of the court or office in
which such record or register hath been made, or a copy of any
will lodged for safe keeping in any office or court, agreeably to
the laws of the State or country as aforesaid, and certified as
aforesaid, shall be good and sufficient evidence in any court in
this State to prove such will. Where any will hath been or shall
be executed in any other of the United States, or in any foreign
country, and to give validity to which recording or registering is
not or shall not be made necessary, proof of the execution thereof
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