442 CHANCERY. [ART. 16

leaving personal estate sufficient to pay his debts and costs of
administration, the court, on any suit instituted by any of his
creditors, may decree that all the real estate of such person,
or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be sold to pay
his debts; and the funeral expenses of the decedent, to be
allowed in the discretion of the court according to the condition
and circumstances of the deceased, not to exceed three hundred
dollars, shall be considered the debt of said decedent; and in
the distribution of the proceeds arising from any sale under this
section, the claim for funeral expenses shall take priority to all
claims of the common creditors of the deceased. This section
to apply to all cases where the heirs or devisees are residents
or non-residents, or are of full age, or infants, or of sound
mind, or non compos mentis, and to cases where the parties left
no heirs, or where it is not known whether he left heirs or
devisees, or, if the heirs or devisees be unknown, and if there
be no heirs, the State's attorney shall appear to the bill.

Campbell v. Diggs, 4 H. & McH. 12. Tyson v. Hollingsworth, 1 H. & J.
469 Harwood v Rawlings, 4 H. & J. 126. State v. Wright, 4 H. & J. 148.
Duvall v. Green, 4 H. & J. 270. Tyler v. Bowie, 4 H. & J. 333. Caman v.
Turner, 6 H. & J. 65. Gist v. Cockey, 7 H. & J. 134. Newton v. Griffith,.
1 H. & G. 112 Buchanan v Deshon, 1 H. & G. 280. Baltzell v. Foss, 1 H.
& G 504 Negro George v. Corse, 2 H. & G. 1. David v. Grahame, 2 H,
& G. 94. Strike v. McDonald, 2 H. & G. 191. Waters v. Riley, 2 H. & G.
305. Maccubbin v Cromwell, 2 H. & G. 443. State v. Annan, 1 G. & J.
450. Simmons v. Drury, 2 G. & J. 32. Mayor and C. C. v. Chase, 2 G. & J.
376. Hoye v Brewer, 3 G & J. 153. Gaither v. Welch, 3 G. & J. 269.
Diffenderfer v. Winder, 3 G. & J. 311. Hanson v. Barnes, Lessee, 3 G. & J.
359. Carroll v. Waring, 3 G & J. 494. Wyse v. Smith, 4 G. & J. 295. Birely
v. Staley, 5 G. & J. 432. Collinson v. Cdllinson, 6 G. & J. 4. Cox v. Mc-
Causland, 6 G. & J. 16. Ellicott v. Ellicott, 6 G. & J. 35. Bentley v. Cow-
man, 6 G & J. 152. Griffith v. Frederick Co. Bank, 6 G. & J. 425. Kent
v. O'Hara, 7 G. & J. 212. Hayes v. Miles, 9 G. & J. 193 Gibson v. Mc-
Cormick, 10 Q. & J. 65. Stevens v. Gregg, 10 G. & J. 148. Spenoer v.
Pearce, 10 G. & J. 294. Chase v. Lockerman, 11 O. &. J. 185. Hoye v. Penn,

1 Bl. 28. Latimer v. Hanson, 1 Bl 51. Strike's Case, 1 Bl. 57 McMechan
v. Chase, 1 Bl. 85. Corrie v. Clark, 1 Bl. 85. Gibson's Case, 1 Bl. 143. Wil-
liamson v. Wilson, 1 Bl. 148. Mackubin v. Brown, 1 Bl, 410. Dorsey v.
Hammond, 1 Bl 463. Fenwick v. Laughlin, 1 Bl. 474. Welch v Stewart,

2 Bl. 37 Campbell's Case, 2 Bl. 209. Ellicott v. Welch, 2 Bl. 242. Ham-
mond v. Hammond, 2 Bl. 306...Deakln's Case, 2 Bl. 398. Watkins v.
Worthington, 2 Bl. 509. Addison v. Bowie, 2 Bl. 606. Worthington v.
Lee, 2 Bl 678. Tessier v. Wyse, 3 Bl. 28. Coombs v. Jordan, 3 Bl. 284. Post
v. Mackall, 3 Bl. 486. McCormick v. Gibson, 3 Bl. 499. Boyd v. Harris, 1
Md Ch. 466. Brooks v. Dent, 1 Md. Ch. 523. McDowell v. Goldsmith, 2