810 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 367
CHAPTER 367.

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 16 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, Edition of 1924, title
Chancery, " sub-title "Non Compos Mentis, " said new Sec-
tion to be known as Section 129A, and to follow immedi-
ately after Section 129 of said Article, defining the powers
of Courts of Equity in Maryland and providing that the
guardian, committee or trustee of the person, property
and/or estate of a person non compos mentis may exer-
cise the power and authority vested in or reserved to
any such person non compos mentis either by deed or by
last will and testament, to sell, convey, lease, mortgage,
or otherwise dispose of, during his life, such property
and estate, or any right, title or interest therein.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a new section be and it is hereby added to
Article 16 of Bagby's Code of the Public General Laws, Edi-
tion of 1924, title "Chancery, " sub-title "Non Compos
Mentis, said new section to be known as 129A to follow im-
mediately after Section 129 of said Article, and to read as
follows:

129A. In all cases where a person is declared a lunatic
or noil compos mentis, and said person owns, or shall there-
after acquire, any right, title, or interest of any kind in
any real, leasehold, sub-leasehold, or sub-sub-leasehold
property by deed or by last will and testament and there
is vested in, or reserved to, such person during the term
of his or her natural life the authority, right and/or power
to sell, convey, lease, mortgage, or otherwise dispose of, or
in any other manner to encumber such property or estate,
or any portion thereof, in those cases, the Court shall have
the right to authorize and direct the guardian, committee
or trustee of the person, property and/or estate of such
lunatic or person non compos mentis, to exercise and exe-
cute such right, power and authority as may be vested in
such person by such deed or last will and testament to the
same extent and as fully as such person might have done
had he not been declared a lunatic or non compos mentis;
provided it shall appear to the Court that the exercise of
such power or authority, as aforesaid, is for the benefit of
said lunatic or person in non compos mentis.

Approved April 29, 1935.