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in a life tenant with remainder over, vested or contingent, or
is vested in the holder of a defeasible estate, but without a
power of sale in such life tenant or such holder of a defeasible
estate, any court having chancery jurisdiction in the city or
county where the land is situated, out of which said rent is
payable, may upon the ex parte petition of such trustee or
life tenant or holder of a defeasible estate, or upon the peti-
tion of the owner of the leasehold or sub-leasehold who
is entitled to redeem and after notice by service of process
upon such trustee or life tenant, or holder of a defeasible
estate, or after notice by publication of such trustee or
life tenant or holder of a defeasible estate be a non-resident,
order the conveyance of the reversion or sub-reversion and
rent or sub-rent, in such land by such trustee or life tenant,
or holder of a defeasible estate to the owner of the leasehold
or sub-leasehold interests therein upon the payment of the
sum of money for which the said rent or sub-rent may be
redeemable, together with a due proportion of the accruing
rent to the date of such payment. Any deed delivered by
such trustee or life tenant or holder of a defeasible estate in
pursuance of such order of court and duly recorded shall
vest in the owner of the leasehold or sub-leasehold estate,
his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, all right,
title, interest and estate of such trustee or life tenant or
holder of the defeasible estate, and of all other persons who
are or may be entitled to any right, title, interest or estate
in and to such reversion or sub-reversion, rent or sub-rent
either at law or in equity, and whether such other persons so
entitled may have vested or contingent interests therein, or
whether such persons or any of them are, or are not, in
being at the date of such redemption. Any petition filed
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under this section by or against a trustee or life tenant or
holder of a defeasible estate will be sufficient in law and
equity if the trustee or life tenant or holder of the defeasible
estate be a party thereto, and it shall not be necessary for
any cestui que trustent, remaindermen or other persons bene-
ficially interested in the subject matter of the petition to be
a party to such petition, they being represented by the
trustee or life tenant or holder of the defeasible estate for
the purpose of the proceedings. Every petition shall set
forth the location and description of the land, the date and
place of record of the lease or sub-lease by which such
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When suffi-
cient in law
and equity.
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