JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1832.

peals, or which may be presented by the record: and it is
Hereby declared to be the duty oT the court of appeals, in

CHAP. 302.

all Cases of appeal from decrees or orders of the court of
chancery, or of a county court as a court of equity, to file
the opinion of said court of appeals, for or in respect of its
determination of said causes, when such determination shall
be had upon argument, oral or in writing, on part of any
of the parties in such cases.

Duty of Court of
Appeals to file
their opinions &c

or equity

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That where any infant, feme
covert, shall, in respect of her dower, unite with her hus-
band in any conveyance or lease executed, and acknowledg-
ed in form, for passing feme covert's real estate, of any
lands, tenements, or hereditaments; and the court of chan-
cery, or any county court, as a court of equity, shall, as con-

Cue or infant
feme cover

To respect to dow-

er, join in convey-

ance or lease

cerns such feme covert's dower, deem such conveyance or
lease equitable, expedient, or proper, the said court, on ap-
plication by any of the parties interested, and on proper

If court deem it
equitable

parties, defendants being made, may, according to the rules
of equity, proceed to adjudge and decree that such convey-
ance or lease be confirmed, and made and declared valid,
from the time of execution of the same to every effect, in-
tent, and purpose, as if the feme covert, at the said execu-
tion, were of the full age of twenty-one years.

May confirm such

conveyance,

Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That the bond required to be
given by the second section of the act, passed at Novem-
ber session of the year seventeen hundred and eighty-five,
chapter seventy-two, entitled, "An act, for enlarging the
powers of the High Court of Chancery," in cases where a
foreclosure of any mortgage on sale of any land, shall be
applied for in which any infant shall be interested, may be

Bond required

under act of 1788
Ch. 72 sec 2., res-

pecting foreclosures
of mortgarge for

sale of land of in-

fants

given to and in the name of the state of Maryland, as obli-
gee and the form of such bond and the security therein,
shall be such as the chancellor, or county court, or any of
the judges thereof, as the case may be, shall approve or

Name of the stats

used

prescribe; and every infant who, at the time of the decree
for the sale or foreclosure of the mortgage of any land, or
of any estate or interest therein shall have any right or
claim to any part or share of any such land, estate or inter-
est, and all persons claiming under any such infant, shall
be entitled to institute and prosecute in the name of the
state, for the use and at the cost of such person or persons,

bill or other proper proceeding in equity, in his, her or
their own name or names against the principal and sure-
ties in such bond or any of them, and recover therein for
any breach of the condition of such bond as fully benefici-

Proceedings there-

on regulated