"When any person who is bound by contract in writing to convey real estate, shall subsequently become insane, incompetent or a spendthrift, and a guardian shall have been duly appointed for such person, before the making of the conveyance of such real estate, the Probate court may make a decree authorizing and directing such guardian to convey such real estate to the person entitled thereto, in all cases where such ward, if competent, might be compelled to execute such conveyance."45

"All the proceedings in such cases shall conform as nearly as possible to the statutes authorizing the specific performance by executors and administrators of the contracts of deceased persons for the conveyance of real estate as contained in this chapter."46

Sec. 136. Specific Performance By Guardians Of Minors. -

Whenever in the distribution or partition of the estate of any person, whether such person died testate or intestate, any moneys due or to become due upon a contract in writing for the sale of real estate made by such deceased in his lifetime, or any such contract or lands therein described shall be assigned or set off to any minor, the probate court having jurisdiction

43. Sec. 14043 Compiled Laws 1915.

44. Sec. 14045 Compiled Laws 1915.

45. Sec. 14050 Compiled Laws of 1915.

46. Sec. 14051 Compiled Laws of 1915.

of the estate of such minor, may make a decree authorizing and directing the guardian of such minor to convey such real estate to the person entitled thereto, in like cases, and upon the presentation of a like petition, either by the person entitled to such conveyance, or by the guardian of such minor, and the same proceedings shall thereupon be had, and with like effect as herein provided for conveyance by executors and administrators.47

The guardian of any such minor may, in the cases provided for in the last section, embrace any number of such contracts that may have been so assigned and set off to such minors in one petition, and such probate court, on the hearing of such petition, may decree a conveyance of the real estate pursuant to the terms of such contracts, to the several persons entitled thereto in the same manner, and with like effect as hereinbefore provided.48