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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
Volume 194, Page 946   View pdf image (33K)
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946 4 GEO. 2, CAP. 10, LUNATIC TRUSTEES, &c.
ing all Parties concerned, on the Petition of the Person or
Persons, for whom such Person or Persons being Ideot, Luna-
tick, or Non compos mentis, shall be seized or possessed in
Trust, or of the Mortgagor or Mortgagors, or of the Person
or Persons infilled to the Monies secured by or upon any
Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, whereof any such Person
or Persons being Ideot, Lunatick, or ~Non compos mentis, is
or are, or shall be seized or possessed by way of Mortgage, or
of the Person or Persons in titled to the Redemption thereof, to
701 convey and assure any such Lands, *Tenements, or
Hereditaments, in such Manner as the Lord Chancellor of
Great Britain, or Lord Keeper, or Commissioners of the Great
Seal of Great Britain, shall, by such Order so to be obtained,
direct, to any other Person or Persons; and such Conveyance
or Assurance, so to be had and made as aforesaid, shall be as
good and effectual in Law, to all Intents and Purposes what-
soever, as if the said Person or Persons being Ideot, Lunatick,
or ~Non compos mentis, was or were, at the time of the making
such Conveyance or Assurance, of sane Mind, Memory, and
Understanding, and not Ideot, Lunatick, or Non compos mentis,
or had by him, her, or themselves executed the same; any Law,
Custom, or Usage to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
That all and every such Person and Persons being Ideot,
Lunatick, or Non compos mentis, and only Trustee or Trus-
tees, Mortgagee or Mortgagees, as aforesaid, or the Committee
and Committees of all and every such Person and Persons,
being Ideot, Lunatick, or Non compos mentis, and only such
Trustee or Mortgagee as aforesaid, shall and may be impowered
and compelled, by such Order so as aforesaid to be obtained,
to make such Conveyance or Conveyances, Assurance or Assur-
ances, as aforesaid, in like manner as Trustees or Mortgagees
of sane Memory are compellable to convey, surrender, or assign
their Trust Estates or Mortgages.
I. Ideots or Lunaticks seized of Estates in Fee, &c., may make Convey-
ances, &c., of such Estates.
II. Ideots, &c., or their Committees, may be compelled by Order, to make
Conveyances, &c.
Chancellor Kilty thought that the eases mentioned in this? Statute and
the others on the same subject might not be fully provided for by the Act
of Nov. 1773, eh. 7, and that they -were therefore proper to be incor-

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