Subject to the powers, rights, and duties of administration, the personal representative of the deceased owner shall hold registered real estate as trustee for the persons beneficially entitled thereto by law. Unless otherwise entitled by law to commissions, the personal representative shall be entitled to no commissions thereon except in cases of necessary sales in the due course of administration. The heirs at law or beneficiaries entitled by law to the real estate shall have the same power of requiring a transfer of such estate as if it were personal estate.
History. Ga. L. 1917, p. 108, § 43; Code 1933, § 60-509.
Structure Georgia Code
Chapter 2 - Recordation and Registration of Deeds and Other Instruments
Part 5 - Conveyance, Transfer, and Descent
§ 44-2-162. Subdivision of Registered Land; Procedure
§ 44-2-163. Conveyance to Secure Debt; Form; Notation and Registration; Creditor’s Certificate
§ 44-2-166. Transfer to Secure Debt; Notation of Bond for Title or to Reconvey
§ 44-2-167. Validity and Priority of Unrecorded Transfers of Owner’s Certificate to Registered Lands
§ 44-2-171. Procedure for Ascertaining, and Transfer To, Heirs or Beneficiaries
§ 44-2-172. Transfer by Clerk Pursuant to Judgment; Production of Copy of Decree and Order