The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-05-04
CHAPTER o21

lUU OF Article 10, o. the COue OF 1uD-
lie General Laws, and to re-enact the
same as amended, so as to authorize
any court which may have appointed
a guardian, committee or trustee OF
the property of a person non compos
mentis, to order or decree upon the
application of such guardian, commit
tee or trustee sale, lease or surren-
der of lease of any real, leasehold or
personal property to which such per-
son non comLos mentis may be entl-
tied, without any process or order OF
publication, and to give to any such
order or decree as may heretofore
have been passed the same effect as If
it had been passed after the passage
of this Act.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, That Sec
lions 9S, 80 and 100 of Article 16, of the
Code of Public General Laws, be, and
the same are hereby, repealed and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:
SO. The court which may have ap-
pointed guardian, committee or trustee
of the property of person non-compos
mentis, may upon the application OF
such guardian, committee or trustee
without any process or order of pubica-
real, leasehold or personal property to
which such person non-compos mentis
may be entitled and order the money
arising therefrom to be invested in
stocks or other property or in mortgages
on real estate, or in other safe securities
as the court may deem most advantage
GUS to such person non-compos mentls,
and on the death of such person non
compos mentis, the principal arising
from any such sale shall pass to and
vest in the person or persons in whom
such property would have vested if the
same had not been sold, any decree or
order which may have been heretofore
passed for the sale of the property OF
any person non-compos menus, shall
have the same effect as if it had been
passed after the adoption of this sec
ton.
SO. The court which may have APP
pointed guardian, committee or trus-
tee of the property of a person non
compos mentis may upon application of
such guardian, committee or trustee
without any process or order of pu blca-
ton, order or decree any real or lease
hold property of person non-compos
mentis to be leased for any term of
years or may order or decree the sur
render of any lease of the estate or
property of such person non-compos
mentis to be accepted and the same to
be demised anew on such terms and
conditions as the court may direct.
100 In all applications by guardian,
committee or trustee of the property of
a person non-compos mentis to sell any
of the real, leasehold or personal prop
erty of such person non-compos mentis,
or to demise any of the real or leasehold
property of such person non-compos
mentis, or to accept the surrender of
lease thereof, the court shall, before
passing an order or decree, have proof
taken as in other chancery cases as to
the value, quantity and condition Of the
property, and after considering all the
circumstances if the court shall deem it
to the interest and advantage of such
person non-compos mentis, it may order
or decree sale, lease or surrender of a
lease of the whole or any part of the
said property on such terms and con-
ditions as the court may prescribe.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by
the General Assembly of Maryland,
That this Act shall take effect imme-
diately on its passage.
Approved April 6, 1894.
FRANK BROWN, Governor.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
President of the Senate.
JAMES H. PRESTON,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing
is correct copy of an act of the General
Assembly of Maryland, passed January
session, 1894.
J. ROGER MCSHERRY,
Secretary of the Senate.
B. l.. SMITH,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
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