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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

seventy-six, entitled "An act to incorporate the
Maryland Tubing Transportation Company," be
and the same is hereby repealed.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1888.

Chapter 478.

AN ACT to add seven additional sections to
article sixteen of the Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland, title " Chancery," to stand
under the sub-title "Declaratory Decrees,"
and be numbered consecutively seventy-eight
A, seventy-eight B, seventy-eight C, seventy-
eight D, seventy-eight E, seventy-eight F and
seventy-eight G.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the following be and they

Additional
sections.

are hereby added as seven additional sections to
article sixteen, of the Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland, title "Chancery," to stand
under the sub-title "Declaratory Decrees," and
be numbered consecutively seventy-eight A,
seventy-eight B, seventy-eight C, seventy-eight
D, seventy-eight E, seventy-eight F and seventy-
eight G, Declaratory Decrees.
78A. Any person entitled to any legal charac-

Institute suit.

ter, or to any right as to any property, may insti-
tute a suit against any person denying, or inter-
ested to deny, his title to such legal character or
right; and the court may, in its discretion, make
therein a declaration that he is so entitled with-
out any further or other relief being asked or
given.

Shall not make

78 B. No court shall make any such declaratory
decree where the plaintiff being, in the opinion
of such courts, able to seek further relief than a
mere declaration of title omits to do so.

Trustee of
property.

78 C. A trustee of property is "A person inter-
ested to deny a title, adverse to the title or rights