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(a)  to charge any personal representative upon any special promise
to answer damages out of his own estate; or

(b)  to charge a defendant upon any special promise to answer
for the debt, default or miscarriage of another person; or

(c)  to charge any person upon any agreement made upon consid-
eration of marriage; or

(d)  upon any contract for the sale or disposition of land or of
any interest in or concerning land; or

(e)  upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the
space of one year from the making thereof;

unless the contract or agreement upon which such action shall be
brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing
and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other
person by Mm lawfully authorized.

5.

All declarations of trust respecting any land or any interest
therein or amendments thereto shall be manifested and proved by
some writing signed by the party who is by law enabled to declare
such trust, or by his last will in writing, or else they shall be void
and of no effect.

This Article is not applicable where any conveyance shall be made
of any interest in land by which a trust shall or may arise or result
by implication or construction of law, or where a trust shall be trans-
ferred or extinguished by operation of law.

7.

All assignments of any beneficial interest in a trust, the assets of
which consist, in whole or in part, of land or any interest therein,
shall be in writing signed by the party assigning the same, or his
agent lawfully authorized by writing, or by his last will in writing,
or else they shall be void and of no effect.

8.

Nothing in the above sections shall be construed as repealing any
of the additional requirements set out in Article 21 for the effective
conveyance of estates or interests in land.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That new Section 9A be and
it is hereby added to Article 50 of said Code (1968 Replacement
Volume), title "Joint Obligations and Joint Tenancy," subtitle
"Joint Tenancy," to follow immediately after Section 9 thereof, and
to read as follows:

9A.

A tenant in common or joint tenant of property, who receives
rent from a third party for the use and enjoyment of said property
is accountable to his co-tenant or co-tenants for that portion of the
rent over and above Ms proportionate share.

6.