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§ 91-7-1. Venue of proof of wills - Wills shall be proved in and letters testamentary thereon granted...
§ 91-7-3. By whom presented - When any last will and testament is exhibited to be...
§ 91-7-5. Production of will compelled - The chancery court of the proper county, on being informed...
§ 91-7-7. Proof of due execution of will - The due execution of the will, whether heretofore or hereafter...
§ 91-7-9. Affidavit of subscribing witness receivable - The affidavit of any subscribing witness to a will, made...
§ 91-7-10. Affidavits may be used to authenticate holographic wills or codicils - Where there is not contest about it, a holographic will...
§ 91-7-11. Testimony of absent witness - When any will shall be exhibited for probate and any...
§ 91-7-13. Testimony on probating will reduced to writing - If the will shall appear to have been duly executed,...
§ 91-7-15. Will executed by person in armed forces - additional manner of proof - In addition to the manner in which wills may be...
§ 91-7-17. Rejection of will not binding - The rejection of an ex parte application to probate a...
§ 91-7-19. All interested may be made parties - Any proponent of a will for probate may, in the...
§ 91-7-21. Caveat against probate may be filed - Any one desiring to contest a will presented for probate...
§ 91-7-23. Validity contested within two years - Any person interested may, at any time within two years,...
§ 91-7-25. Necessary parties to contest - In any proceeding to contest the validity of a will,...
§ 91-7-27. Probate of will prima facie evidence - On the trial of an issue made up to determine...
§ 91-7-29. Trial of issue devisavit vel non - On the trial of such issue, the proponent of the...
§ 91-7-31. Wills recorded - All original wills, after probate thereof, shall be recorded and...
§ 91-7-33. Foreign wills recorded - Authenticated copies of wills proven according to the laws of...
§ 91-7-35. Grant of letters testamentary - The executor named in any last will and testament, whether...
§ 91-7-37. Eighteen the age of majority for executors and administrators - The age of eighteen (18) years shall be the age...
§ 91-7-39. Administration with will annexed - If there be no executor named in any last will...
§ 91-7-41. Oath and bond of executor or administrator with will annexed - Every executor or administrator with the will annexed, at or...
§ 91-7-43. Executor as residuary legatee - If the executor be a residuary legatee, he may, instead...
§ 91-7-45. When bond not required - If the testator, by will, direct that his executor shall...
§ 91-7-49. Directions of will to be followed - Whenever any last will and testament shall empower and direct...
§ 91-7-51. Effect of receipt for money by executor or trustee - The receipt by an executor or any trustee, whether under...
§ 91-7-53. Temporary administrator - Whenever it shall be necessary for the care and preservation...
§ 91-7-55. Estate to be appraised - Before the temporary administrator shall act as such, he shall...
§ 91-7-57. Powers of temporary administrator - The temporary administrator shall have power, and it shall be...
§ 91-7-59. Compensation of temporary administrator - On the grant of letters testamentary or of administration, the...
§ 91-7-61. Administrator to institute suits - If necessary, an administrator may be appointed to institute and...
§ 91-7-65. Persons disqualified to administer - Letters of administration shall not be granted to a person...
§ 91-7-67. Oath and bond of administrator - The person to whom administration is granted, at or prior...
§ 91-7-68. Administrator of estate of intestate under legal disability - Upon the death intestate of any person under legal disability...
§ 91-7-69. Administration de bonis non - If an executor or administrator die, resign, be removed, or...
§ 91-7-71. Rights of administrator de bonis non - Every administrator de bonis non shall be entitled to all...
§ 91-7-73. County administrator - It shall be the duty of the chancellor to appoint...
§ 91-7-75. Bond and oath of county administrator - Before a county administrator shall perform any of the duties...
§ 91-7-77. Additional bond may be required - Whenever it shall appear that the penalty of the bond...
§ 91-7-79. Letters granted to county administrator - When it shall appear that any person has died, in...
§ 91-7-81. Accounts to be filed when office vacated - Should the county administrator resign his office or otherwise vacate...
§ 91-7-83. Sheriff administrator in certain cases - If it appears that any person has died, in this...
§ 91-7-85. Removal and surrender of trust - Every executor or administrator may be removed if he become...
§ 91-7-87. Administration revoked by proof of will and grant of letters testamentary - If a will shall be found and probated and letters...
§ 91-7-89. Letters of certain nonresidents revoked - If letters testamentary or of administration be granted to any...
§ 91-7-91. Assets defined; unsecured creditors to give notice - The real property, goods, chattels, personal property, choses in action...
§ 91-7-93. Inventory of money and property owned by decedent at time of death - The executor or administrator shall, within ninety (90) days of...
§ 91-7-95. Supplementary inventory or appraisement - If any property not included in the original inventory comes...
§ 91-7-97. Adoption of collector's inventory or new inventory - In case an inventory be returned by a temporary administrator,...
§ 91-7-99. All to join in returning inventory - If there be more than one executor, administrator, or temporary...
§ 91-7-101. Debt from executor or administrator inventoried - The naming of an executor in a will shall not...
§ 91-7-103. Summary proceeding for discovery of assets - If the goods, chattels, and effects are improperly withheld from...
§ 91-7-105. Failure to return inventory - If any executor, administrator, or temporary administrator fail to return...
§ 91-7-107. Perfect inventory may be compelled - If any person interested discover that the inventory returned does...
§ 91-7-109. Inventory and appraisement by qualified disinterested persons - The executor or administrator may employ a qualified and disinterested...
§ 91-7-117. Executor or administrator to set apart exempt property - It shall be the duty of the executor or administrator...
§ 91-7-135. Court or chancellor to set apart one year's support for family - It shall be the duty of the court or the...
§ 91-7-141. Court or chancellor may apportion year's allowance - The court or the chancellor may apportion the one (1)...
§ 91-7-143. Minor distributee or legatee maintained - An executor or administrator of a solvent estate may defray...
§ 91-7-147. Newspaper notices dispensed with in small estates - Where the value of an estate shall not be more...
§ 91-7-149. Probate of claims - Any person desiring to probate his claim shall present to...
§ 91-7-151. Claims to be registered in ninety days or barred; amendment of affidavits - All claims against the estate of deceased persons, whether due...
§ 91-7-153. Registration of claim stops limitation - The presentation of a claim, and having it probated and...
§ 91-7-155. Executor to pay probated, registered debts - It shall be the duty of an executor or administrator...
§ 91-7-157. Executor to pay taxes - An executor or administrator shall pay all taxes that may...
§ 91-7-159. Agreement with commissioner of internal revenue to exercise discretion in distributing assets of estate or trust - The executor, trustee, or other fiduciary having discretionary powers under...
§ 91-7-161. Creditors whose claims are not due must accept payment - The executor or administrator may pay any debt, duly probated,...
§ 91-7-163. Claim of executor or administrator to be treated same as other claims - An executor or administrator shall not be allowed to retain...
§ 91-7-165. Claims may be contested - The executor or administrator, legatee, heir, or any creditor may...
§ 91-7-167. Creditor having lien failing to present claim - A creditor of a decedent who has a lien of...
§ 91-7-169. Growing crop - The court or chancellor may, on the application of an...
§ 91-7-171. Farm may be cultivated or rented - The court or chancellor, upon the application of executor or...
§ 91-7-173. Executor or administrator may continue business for limited time - The chancery court or the chancellor in vacation shall have...
§ 91-7-175. Sale of perishable property - The court or clerk may order the sale of perishable...
§ 91-7-177. Private sale of personal property - The court, or the chancellor in vacation, may authorize the...
§ 91-7-179. Sale for appraised value without order - The executor or administrator, without an order therefor, may sell...
§ 91-7-181. Certain property may be sold without being present - An executor or administrator may sell the interest of his...
§ 91-7-183. Public sale of personal property - If it be necessary to sell personal property for the...
§ 91-7-185. Report of sale and proceedings - Whenever personal property shall be sold by an executor or...
§ 91-7-187. Sale of land in preference to personalty - When the estate of any deceased person consists of real...
§ 91-7-189. Sale to pay the purchase-money of land - If a person purchase land and die before paying therefor,...
§ 91-7-191. Sale of land upon insufficiency of personalty - Whenever it shall be necessary for an executor or administrator...
§ 91-7-193. Waste of personal estate no bar - The fact that the insufficiency of the personal estate arose...
§ 91-7-195. Creditors may apply for sale of property - Any creditor of the decedent whose claim against the estate...
§ 91-7-197. Interested parties to be cited upon petition to sell property - When a petition shall be filed to sell or lease...
§ 91-7-199. Hearing and decree - The court, after service of summons or proof of publication,...
§ 91-7-201. Mistake in description of land may be corrected - If any mistake shall be made in the description of...
§ 91-7-203. Bond to pay debts may be given and decree for sale not made - A decree for the sale or lease of land shall...
§ 91-7-205. Bond required in decree for sale of lands; waiver of bond - After the expiration of the time in which all claims...
§ 91-7-207. Failure to give bond - If an executor or administrator who has been ordered to...
§ 91-7-209. Purchase-money a charge on property - Where the property of a decedent shall be sold by...
§ 91-7-211. Estoppel from receipt of purchase-money - Nothing in Section 91-7-209 shall hinder the application of the...
§ 91-7-213. Borrowing money to pay claims - When an executor or administrator shall discover that the personal...
§ 91-7-215. Procedure for borrowing - With such petition the executor or administrator shall file and...
§ 91-7-217. Overplus and contribution - In the event the land so encumbered should be thereafter...
§ 91-7-219. Procedure in vacation - Such decree may be rendered by the presiding chancellor of...
§ 91-7-221. Executor or administrator to make title to land - If any person sell lands, enter into contract to make...
§ 91-7-223. Executors and administrators may make deeds of conveyance - The administrator, executor, or testamentary trustee may at any time,...
§ 91-7-225. Lands may be leased to pay debts - In case it shall be made to appear to the...
§ 91-7-227. Executors and administrators to renew obligation and encumbrances of estate - The chancery court or the chancellor in vacation, when he...
§ 91-7-229. Claims may be sold or compromised - The court or chancellor in vacation, on petition for that...
§ 91-7-231. Actions which accrue in administration - An executor, administrator, or temporary administrator may maintain any action...
§ 91-7-233. What actions survive to executor or administrator - Executors, administrators, and temporary administrators may commence and prosecute any...
§ 91-7-235. What actions survive against executor or administrator - When any decedent shall in his lifetime have committed any...
§ 91-7-237. Death of party not to abate suit in certain cases - When either of the parties to any personal action shall...
§ 91-7-239. Executor or administrator not to be sued for ninety days - A suit or action shall not be brought against an...
§ 91-7-241. Suit by or against administrator not to abate - If any executor or administrator die, resign, or be removed,...
§ 91-7-243. Not bound to plead specially - Executors, administrators, and temporary administrators shall not be bound to...
§ 91-7-245. Any one interested may defend suit - Any legatee, heir, distributee, or creditor may be admitted by...
§ 91-7-247. Actions which accrue between administrators - When there are two (2) or more administrators of an...
§ 91-7-249. Executor in his own wrong - If any person shall alienate or embezzle any of the...
§ 91-7-251. Liability of executor or administrator of an executor de son tort - The executor or administrator of an executor de son tort...
§ 91-7-253. Fiduciary not to use funds; investment by fiduciary bank in time certificates of deposit - No executor, administrator, guardian, receiver or other fiduciary appointed by...
§ 91-7-255. Fiduciary not to transfer negotiable papers - An executor, administrator, guardian, receiver, or other fiduciary appointed by...
§ 91-7-259. Foreign executor or administrator may sue - Executors and administrators who have qualified in other states or...
§ 91-7-261. Procedures for insolvent estates - The executor or administrator shall take proper steps speedily to...
§ 91-7-263. Creditor may institute insolvency proceedings - Any creditor of the decedent may represent to the court...
§ 91-7-265. Decree of insolvency after all property sold - Where an estate is found to be insolvent after a...
§ 91-7-267. Publication and claims presented in insolvent estate - If an estate be declared insolvent after the executor or...
§ 91-7-269. Filing, examination, and adjudication of claims in insolvent estate - When the time for probating and registering claims has elapsed,...
§ 91-7-271. Distribution of assets in insolvent estate - When the claims are established and the amount of assets...
§ 91-7-273. Suits not to abate on insolvency - A suit or action which may be pending against an...
§ 91-7-275. Suit not allowed after decree of insolvency - A suit or action shall not be brought against an...
§ 91-7-277. Annual accounts - Every executor or administrator, at least once in each year...
§ 91-7-281. Attorney's fees allowable - In annual and final settlements, the executor, administrator, or guardian...
§ 91-7-283. Defaulters to be listed and cited - Unless the court or chancellor has, by order entered on...
§ 91-7-285. Process for derelict fiduciary - Whenever it shall appear of record, or otherwise, that any...
§ 91-7-287. Publication of process for defaulter - If the citation be returned unexecuted because such fiduciary cannot...
§ 91-7-289. Hearing for derelict fiduciary - If on the return day it shall appear that the...
§ 91-7-291. Final accounts - When the estate has been administered by payment of the...
§ 91-7-293. Names of interested parties to be stated - The executor or administrator shall file with his final account...
§ 91-7-295. Summons or publication for final account - The final account so presented, with the statement as to...
§ 91-7-297. Hearing and adjudication of final account - If process be returned executed, or publication has been made,...
§ 91-7-299. Allowance to executor or administrator - On the final settlement the court shall make allowance to...
§ 91-7-301. Personal estate sold for division - When personal property of a deceased person cannot be equally...
§ 91-7-303. Distribution compelled - Any person entitled to a distributive share of an intestate's...
§ 91-7-307. Delaying settlement - If an executor or administrator improperly delay making a final...
§ 91-7-309. Accounts may be opened and falsified in two years - Any person interested may, at any time within two years...
§ 91-7-311. Bonds to be recorded; suits thereon - All bonds required and given in the administration of estate,...
§ 91-7-313. Suit for devastavit - Parties interested in an estate as legatees, distributees, or creditors...
§ 91-7-315. New bond of executors and administrators may be required - If the bond of an executor or an administrator, whether...
§ 91-7-317. Relief of sureties and new bond - A surety on any bond of an executor, administrator, county...
§ 91-7-319. Executors may receive credit for costs of bond in surety company - Any receiver, assignee, guardian, executor, administrator, or other fiduciary required...
§ 91-7-321. Custodian appointed for distributive share - If any person entitled, under a decree of the chancery...
§ 91-7-323. Wages due deceased employee - When any person, male or female, shall die leaving wages,...
§ 91-7-325. Suit to recover wages if not paid within sixty days - After the sixty days referred to in Section 91-7-323 have...
§ 91-7-327. Duty of chancery clerk when wages paid to him - Where such wages are paid to the chancery clerk as...
§ 91-7-329. Not to apply to estates administered upon - Sections 91-7-323 through 91-7-327 shall not apply in cases where...
§ 91-7-331. "Administrator" defined - The word administrator in this chapter shall embrace a temporary...