Georgia Code
Part 5 - Conveyance, Transfer, and Descent
§ 44-2-169. Personal Representative as Trustee; Right of Personal Representative to a Commission; Power of Heirs to Require Transfer

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

Georgia Code

Title 44 - Property

Chapter 2 - Recordation and Registration of Deeds and Other Instruments

Article 2 - Land Registration

Part 5 - Conveyance, Transfer, and Descent

§ 44-2-160. Manner of Recording Deeds Conveying Title to Registered Land; Validity of Previous Conveyances of Registered Land

§ 44-2-161. Partial Transfer of Registered Land; Undivided Interest; Interest in Particular Portion; Notations on Register; Issuance of Certificates

§ 44-2-162. Subdivision of Registered Land; Procedure

§ 44-2-163. Conveyance to Secure Debt; Form; Notation and Registration; Creditor’s Certificate

§ 44-2-164. Assignment or Negotiation of Creditor’s Certificate; Effect of Transfer of Indebtedness; Surrender and Cancellation of Certificate; Order of Cancellation; Notation

§ 44-2-165. Sale by Holder of Creditor’s Certificate; Application for Transfer to Purchaser; Opportunity to Object to Transfer; Order of Application of Sale Proceeds

§ 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

§ 44-2-169. Personal Representative as Trustee; Right of Personal Representative to a Commission; Power of Heirs to Require Transfer

§ 44-2-170. Right of Personal Representative to Have Registered Land Transferred to Him Where Such Land Transferred to Heirs Before His Appointment; Action Against Heirs Who Have Improperly Appropriated Land

§ 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

§ 44-2-173. Petition for Involuntary Transfer; Referral to Examiner; Notice; Appointment of Guardians Ad Litem; Order of Transfer

§ 44-2-174. Attack on Transfers Made to Hinder, Delay, or Defraud Creditors; Decree Voiding Such Transfer; Entry of Cancellations and Transfers on Register and Certificate

§ 44-2-175. Registering Subsequent Transfers or Voluntary Conveyances of Land Held in Trust or Otherwise Restricted

§ 44-2-176. Duty of Tax Officer to Have Delinquent Taxes or Assessments Noted; Effect of Delinquencies Prior to Notation; Liability of Officer