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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 571.

AN ACT to repeal section thirty-two of article ninety-three

title "Testamentary Laws," sub title "Administration,"

of the Code of Public General Laws, and to re-enact the

same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Repealed
and

Maryland, That section thirty-two of article niuety-three,

re-enacted

title "Testamentary Laws," sub-title " Administration," of

the Code of Public General Laws be and the same is hereby

repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as

follows :

32. If the intestate be a married woman, aud shall leave no

Property
of a

child or children or descendants all her personal property in-

married

cluding therein all choses in action, shall devolve upon her

woman

husband absolutely; and it shall not in such case be necessary

for him to administer upon her estate in order to pass title to

him, unless she shall be liable in law for debts owing by

her; but no title whatever to such personal property or

choses in action shall pass to the said husband when

administration is not uecessaiy except by an order of the

Orphans' Court declaring the same. Upon application of

the said husband the court shall pass an order nisi, which

shall be published in .such manner and for such time as the

court in its discretion may prescribe, aud which after the

expiration of said notice shall be finally ratified by said

court unless cause to the contrary has been shown, but if

the intestate be a married woman, and leave a child or

children or descendants her personal estate including all

choses in action, shall devolve upon her administrator or

administrators, and the surplus of her estate shall be dis-

tributed by the Orphans' Court to the husband for his life

and no longer, and after his death then to her children aud

descendants, per stirpes; and it shall be the duty of the

Orphans' Court granting the said administration to direct

the mode in which the said estate shall be interested so as

best to serve the rights of children or others interested after

the expiration of the life estate ; and the whole of the said

personal estate shall be subject to the orders of the Orphans'

Court, and shall not be disposed of by the administrator

except by virtue of an order or a decree duly passed by said

court.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall

Effective.

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.