2062 TESTAMENTARY LAW. [ART. 93

1888, art. 93, sec. 323. 1860, art. 93, sec. 311. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch 15,
sec. 1. 1831, ch. 315, sec. 1.

331. The orphans' courts, and in their recess, the registers
of wills in this State, are authorized to take the probate of any
will, testament or codicil, whether the same has relation to
real or personal estate, or to both real and personal estate.

Belt v. Belt, 1 H. & McH. 409. Wilmot's Lessee v. Talbot, 3 H. & McH. 2 ,
Collins' Lessee v. Elliott, 1 H. & J. 1. Collins v. Nicholls, 1 H. & J. 399
Deakms v. Hollis, 7 G. & J. 311 Hannon v. State, 2 Gill, 42. Budd v.
Brooke, 3 Gill, 198. Robey v. Hannon, 6 Gill, 463 Boofter v. Rogeis, 9
Gill, 44. Rhodes v. Vinson, 9 Gill, 169. Townshend v. Townshend, 9 Gill,
506. Gaither v. Gaither, 3 Md. Ch. 158. Welty v. Welty, 8 Md. 15.
Michael v. Baker, 12 Md. 158. Warford v. Colvin, 14 Md. 532. Colvin v.
Warford, 20 Md. 385. Johns v. Hodges, 62 Md. 525.

Ibid. sec. 324. 1860, art. 93, sec. 312. 1798, ch 101, sub-ch. 2, sec. 2.

332. It shall be lawful for any private person in whose
possession or custody a will or codicil shall be after the death
of the testator to open and read the same in the presence of
any near relations of the deceased who may conveniently have
notice thereof, and other persons, and immediately thereafter
to deliver the same to the register of wills of the county, whose
duty it shall be to keep the same safe until proceedings may
be had for the probate thereof in the said office, or until it be
demanded by an executor or other person authorized to demand
it for the purpose of having it proved according to law.

Ibid. sec. 325. 1860, ait. 93, sec. 313. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch 2, sec. 3

333. If any private person, in whose possession or custody
a will or codicil shall be after the death of the testator shall
wilfully neglect to deliver the same to the register of wills of
the county where the said person resides, or where it is proper
to prove the same, or to some executor named in the will, for
the space of three calendar months after the death of the tes-
tator shall be known to him, he shall be subject, on conviction
in a court of law, to such fine as the court shall in their discre-
tion think, proper.

Ibid. sec. 326. 1860, art. 93, sec. 314. 1862, ch. 155.

334. Any will or codicil may be proved in any county or
Baltimore city wherein letters testamentary or of administra-
tion may be granted.

Schultz v. Houck, 29 Md. 24. Johns v. Hodges, 62 Md 525.