If a parcener, tenant in common or joint tenant, or assignee of the interest, in real estate, dies leaving a widow with a mental disability, or a widow becomes mentally disabled before the assignment of dower and partition of the residue of the lands of the decedent, a trustee for the widow with a mental disability may be appointed by the Court of Chancery and proceedings for partition may be had in the manner and form as prescribed by § 911 of Title 12 [repealed].

Code 1915, § ?3291; Code 1935, § ?3755; 25 Del. C. 1953, § ?741; 49 Del. Laws, c. 57, § ?1; 79 Del. Laws, c. 371, § ?28;