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Passed Mar.
10, 1864.
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AN ACT to amend the one hundred and twenty-
sixth section of Article sixteen of the Code of
Public General Laws entitled, Chancery, relat-
ing to the sale of real estate, where the personal
estate is insufficient to pay the debts of the de-
cedent.
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Amended and
re-enacted.
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SECTION 1 . Be it enacted ly the General Assembly
of Maryland, That section one hundred and twen-
ty-six of the Code of Public General Laws of Ar-
ticle sixteen, be amended and re-enacted, so as to
read as follows:
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Real estate
may be sold to
pay debts.
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Where any person dies, leaving any real estate
in possession, remainder or reversion, and not leav-
ing personal estate, exclusive of the appraised
value of the negroes, sufficient to pay his debts
and costs of administration on any suit already,
or which may be hereafter instituted by any of his
creditors, the court may decree that all the real es-
tate of such person, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, shall be solace pay his debts; this
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 de-
visees; or if the heirs or devisees be unknown, and
if there be no heirs, the State's Attorney shall ap-
pear to the bill.
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