Delaware Code
Subchapter III. Death, Removal or Discharge of Executor or Administrator
§ 1543. Rights of coexecutor, coadministrator or successor upon death or removal.

Whenever an executor or administrator is removed or dies before the estate of the deceased is closed, a coexecutor or coadministrator, or if there be none such, a successor, shall be entitled to receive all the unadministered effects, including books and papers, which, at the time of such removal or death, shall be in the executor's or administrator's hands, or for which the executor or administrator is answerable, just allowances being made.

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