Chap. 426.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to
amend and re-enact sections 2616 and 2620 of an act entitled an act
to revise, arrange, and consolidate into a Code the general statutes of
Ye common eat ap paved May 16, 1887, approved 23d February,
1888,

Approved March 5, 1888.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That.
sections twenty-six hundred and sixteen and twenty-six hun-
dred and twenty of an act entitled an act to revise, arrange,
and consolidate into a Code the general statutes of the com-
monwealth, approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and
eighty-seven, be and they are hereby amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§ 2616. If the guardian of any minor, or the committee of
any insane person, think that the interests of the ward or in-
sane person will be promoted by a sale of his estate, or estate
in which he is interested with others, infants or adults, or if
it be real estate, by an exchange of such real estate for other

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real estate; or if the trustee of any estate, or any person in-
terested in any estato in trust, whether he be interested with
others or not, think the interest of those for whom the estate
is held will be promoted by a sale thereof, or if it be real
estate, by an exchange thereof for other real estate, such
guardian, committee, trustee, or beneficiary, whether the es-
tate of the minor or insane person, or of any of the persons
interested, be absolute or limited, and whether there be or be
not limited thereon any other estate, vested or contingent,
and whether the guardian, committee, or trustee, or the minor,
insane person, or any of the persons interested, reside in this
state or not, may, for the purpose of obtaining such sale or
exchange, file a bill in equity, in the circuit court of the
county or the circuit or corporation court of the corporation
in which the estate proposed to be sold or exchanged, or
some part thereof may be, stating plainly all the estate, real
and personal, belonging to such infant or insane person, or 80
held in trust, and all the facts calculated to show the pro-
priety of the sale or exchange. The bill shall be verified by
the oath of the plaintiff; and the infant. or insane person, or
the beneficiaries in said trust, and the trustee (when not plain-
tiffs) and all others interested, shall be made defendants; and
also when there is an infant or insane defendant, all those
who would be his heirs or distributees if he were dead.

§ 2620. If it be clearly shown, independently of any admis-
sions in the answers, that the interests of the infant, insane
oem, or beneficiaries in the trust, as the case may be, will

e promoted, and the court be of opinion that the rights of
no person will be violated thereby, it may decree a sale of
said estate, or any part thereof, or if it be real estate, an ex-
change thereof for other real estate, taking for the purchase
money when the sale is on credit, ample security; and if the
sale be of real estate, retaining a lien thereon: provided, that
any exchange of lands heretofore decreed or entered by a
court, shall be as valid as if such exchange had been so de-
creed or ordered after the passage of this act.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.