150 CHANCERY—INFANTS. [ART. 16.

version or executory devise in the lands or chattels real, mentioned,
in the two preceding sections, may assent to a demise or a decree
therefor on behalf of such estate to which he is so presumptively
or apparently entitled.

Hitch v. Davis 3 Md Ch. 262.

P G. L. (1860) art. 16, sec. 42. 1831, ch. 311, secs. 4-5.

54. Where the owner of the particular estate for life or years, or
for other estate, is of full age, the court may, on his application,
and with the consent of all the owners of the other parts of the
estate, decree a demise; or if the person whose consent is required,
to authorize a decree for a demise be an infant, or being of full
age, shall refuse to assent, the court may, if such person be made
a defendant, on considering the pleadings and evidence in the case,
determine whether a decree should be made, and decree accord-
ingly.

Hitch v. Davis, 3 Md Ch 202 Long v. Long, 62 Md, 33.

Ibid. sec. 43. 1831, ch. 311, secs. 6-13.

55. The five preceding sections shall apply to cases where any
or all of the defendants are non-residents, and such non-resident
defendants may be proceeded against in the same manner as non-
resident defendants in, other cases; provided, that non-resident:
infants, against whom their guardian er next friend may file a
petition or bill for the sale, mortgage, demise or exchange of
their lands or property, shall be proceeded against as directed in
eases where a guardian applies for the sale of such infant's real
estate.

Ibid. sec. 44 1835, ch. 367, sec. 3.

56. Upon the application, of the guardian or next friend of an
infant, the court may, if it appears for the benefit and advantage
of such infant, authorize and decree an exchange of real estate or
chattels real in which such infant has any estate, interest, trust or
property or benefit, for other real estate or chattels real, or inter-
est, trust or property therein; and the court, in decreeing such
exchange, may not require equality or sameness in the quantity
or character of the estate or interests, and the court may appoint
trustees to execute the deeds necessary to carry such exchange;
into effect.