660 INDEX.—1 BLAND.

NON COMPOS MENTIS. -Continued,

to have assented to what of which it was wholly ignorant or misin-
formed. Ib.

7. If a person of weak mind be imposed upon, he will be relieved in
equity. Ib.

8. A contract made with a person who is at the time actually non compos
mentis, whether from idiocy, lunacy, delirium or dotage, is void. Ib.

9. Various circumstances recited which, when taken in connexion with
weakness of mind, constitute a foundation of fraud whereon to
vacate a contract. Ib,

10. The maxim of the English law, that no man of full age shall be, in
any plea to be pleaded by him, received to stultify himself and dis-
able his own person, examined, considered, and rejected, as being
inconsistent with the principles of the law of Maryland. Ib.

11. The indications and characteristic differences between the four kinds
of dementia, called idiocy, delirium, lunacy, and dotage, as regarded
by the medical profession and as recognized by the law, examined
and considered. Ib.

PARTITION.

1. Where a bill has been filed for partition, creditors may come in on the
ground of the insufficiency of the personal estate of the deceased
debtor whose real estate is thus proposed to be divided. Latimer v.
Hanson, 45.

2. A direction by a testator in his will, that his estate shall be valued
and divided among his devisees by persons to be appointed by the
Chancellor, amounts to no more than saying, that a partition may
be obtained by bill in Chancery; it cannot authorize a judicial pro-
ceeding ex parte by any of the devisees. Howard's Case, 343.

3. The recommendations of the parties and their solicitors may be heard
as to the persons most suitable to be appointed commissioners to
make partition of the estate. Ib.
See STATUTES 1,1.

PARTNERSHIP.

1. A partnership for a limited period may he dissolved before the expi-
ration of the specified time by death or insolvency. Williamson v.
Wilson, 381.

2. After a firm has become insolvent, the partners are to be considered
as trustees for the benefit of their creditors; and therefore a suit
between such partners may be treated as a creditor's suit, and the
partnership estate collected and distributed accordingly. Ib.

See RECEIVER, 3,12.

PATENT.

1. Every patent for land from the State binds it to warrant to the gran-
tee, and his assigns, that the tract described shall contain the num-
ber of acres specified. Hoffman v. Johnson, 95.

2. How a deficiency in quantity is made up. Ib.

3. The manner of obtaining a patent grant for land. The objects of an
inquest of office; the cases in which it is required; and the mode of
proceeding by caveat to prevent the emanation of a patent ia Eng-
land and in Maryland. Cunningham v. Browning, 280.