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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

lists any property of any person which may have

been omitted as provided by section one hundred

and fifty of the act of eighteen hundred and

seventy-eight, chapter one hundred and seventy-

eight.

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

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved May 3, 1882.

Chapter 477.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amend-

ments section thirty-two of article ninety-three

of the Code of Public General Laws, title

" Testamentary Law," as repealed and re-enact-

ed by the act of January session, eighteen hun-

dred and seventy-eight, chapter two hundred

and sixty-eight.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That section thirty-two of article ninety-

three of the Code of Public General Laws, title

Repealed and

"Testamentary Law," as repealed and re-enacted

re-enacted.

by the act of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight,

chapter two hundred and sixty-eight, be and the

same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to

read as follows :

SEC. 32. If the intestate be a married woman,

and shall leave no child or children or descendants,

all her personal property, including therein all

Devolve upon

choses in action, shall devolve upon her husband

husband.

absolutely; and it shall not in such case be nec-

cessary 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 if the intestate

be a married woman, and leaves a child or child-

ren or descendants, her personal estate, including

Devolve upon

all choses in action, shall devolve upon her admin-

administrator.

istrator or administrators, and the surplus of her

estate shall be distributed by the Orphans' Court

to the husband for his life, and no longer, and