Chapter 7 - Executors and Administrators.
- 91-7-1 - Venue of proof of wills.
- 91-7-3 - By whom presented.
- 91-7-5 - Production of will compelled.
- 91-7-7 - Proof of due execution of will.
- 91-7-9 - Affidavit of subscribing witness receivable.
- 91-7-10 - Affidavits may be used to authenticate holographic wills or codicils.
- 91-7-11 - Testimony of absent witness.
- 91-7-13 - Testimony on probating will reduced to writing.
- 91-7-15 - Will executed by person in armed forces - additional manner of proof.
- 91-7-17 - Rejection of will not binding.
- 91-7-19 - All interested may be made parties.
- 91-7-21 - Caveat against probate may be filed.
- 91-7-23 - Validity contested within two years.
- 91-7-25 - Necessary parties to contest.
- 91-7-27 - Probate of will prima facie evidence.
- 91-7-29 - Trial of issue devisavit vel non.
- 91-7-31 - Wills recorded.
- 91-7-33 - Foreign wills recorded.
- 91-7-35 - Grant of letters testamentary.
- 91-7-37 - Eighteen the age of majority for executors and administrators.
- 91-7-39 - Administration with will annexed.
- 91-7-41 - Oath and bond of executor or administrator with will annexed.
- 91-7-43 - Executor as residuary legatee.
- 91-7-45 - When bond not required.
- 91-7-47 - Rights and duties of executor or administrator with will annexed.
- 91-7-49 - Directions of will to be followed.
- 91-7-51 - Effect of receipt for money by executor or trustee.
- 91-7-53 - Temporary administrator.
- 91-7-55 - Estate to be appraised.
- 91-7-57 - Powers of temporary administrator.
- 91-7-59 - Compensation of temporary administrator.
- 91-7-61 - Administrator to institute suits.
- 91-7-63 - Grant of administration.
- 91-7-65 - Persons disqualified to administer.
- 91-7-67 - Oath and bond of administrator.
- 91-7-68 - Administrator of estate of intestate under legal disability.
- 91-7-69 - Administration de bonis non.
- 91-7-71 - Rights of administrator de bonis non.
- 91-7-73 - County administrator.
- 91-7-75 - Bond and oath of county administrator.
- 91-7-77 - Additional bond may be required.
- 91-7-79 - Letters granted to county administrator.
- 91-7-81 - Accounts to be filed when office vacated.
- 91-7-83 - Sheriff administrator in certain cases.
- 91-7-85 - Removal and surrender of trust.
- 91-7-87 - Administration revoked by proof of will and grant of letters testamentary.
- 91-7-89 - Letters of certain nonresidents revoked.
- 91-7-91 - Assets defined; unsecured creditors to give notice.
- 91-7-93 - Inventory of money, debts due decedent, and property not appraised.
- 91-7-95 - Additional inventory.
- 91-7-97 - Adoption of collector's inventory or new inventory.
- 91-7-99 - All to join in returning inventory.
- 91-7-101 - Debt from executor or administrator inventoried.
- 91-7-103 - Summary proceeding for discovery of assets.
- 91-7-105 - Failure to return inventory.
- 91-7-107 - Perfect inventory may be compelled.
- 91-7-109 - Inventory and appraisement by disinterested persons.
- 91-7-111 - Warrants of appraisement to different counties.
- 91-7-113 - Form of warrant.
- 91-7-115 - Administration of oath and how vacancies filled.
- 91-7-117 - Appraisers to set apart exempt property.
- 91-7-119 - through 91-7-133. Repealed.
- 91-7-135 - Appraisers to set apart one year's support for family.
- 91-7-137 - Appraisers to report.
- 91-7-139 - Extension of time; defaulting appraiser fined.
- 91-7-141 - Court may apportion year's allowance.
- 91-7-143 - Minor distributee or legatee maintained.
- 91-7-145 - Notice to creditors of estate.
- 91-7-147 - Newspaper notices dispensed with in small estates.
- 91-7-149 - Probate of claims.
- 91-7-151 - Claims to be registered in ninety days or barred; amendment of affidavits.
- 91-7-153 - Registration of claim stops limitation.
- 91-7-155 - Executor to pay probated, registered debts.
- 91-7-157 - Executor to pay taxes.
- 91-7-159 - Agreement with commissioner of internal revenue to exercise discretion in distributing assets of estate or trust.
- 91-7-161 - Creditors whose claims are not due must accept payment.
- 91-7-163 - Claim of executor or administrator to be treated same as other claims.
- 91-7-165 - Claims may be contested.
- 91-7-167 - Creditor having lien failing to present claim.
- 91-7-169 - Growing crop.
- 91-7-171 - Farm may be cultivated or rented.
- 91-7-173 - Executor or administrator may continue business for limited time.
- 91-7-175 - Sale of perishable property.
- 91-7-177 - Private sale of personal property.
- 91-7-179 - Sale for appraised value without order.
- 91-7-181 - Certain property may be sold without being present.
- 91-7-183 - Public sale of personal property.
- 91-7-185 - Report of sale and proceedings.
- 91-7-187 - Sale of land in preference to personalty.
- 91-7-189 - Sale to pay the purchase-money of land.
- 91-7-191 - Sale of land upon insufficiency of personalty.
- 91-7-193 - Waste of personal estate no bar.
- 91-7-195 - Creditors may apply for sale of property.
- 91-7-197 - Interested parties to be cited upon petition to sell property.
- 91-7-199 - Hearing and decree.
- 91-7-201 - Mistake in description of land may be corrected.
- 91-7-203 - Bond to pay debts may be given and decree for sale not made.
- 91-7-205 - Bond required in decree for sale of lands; waiver of bond.
- 91-7-207 - Failure to give bond.
- 91-7-209 - Purchase-money a charge on property.
- 91-7-211 - Estoppel from receipt of purchase-money.
- 91-7-213 - Borrowing money to pay claims.
- 91-7-215 - Procedure for borrowing.
- 91-7-217 - Overplus and contribution.
- 91-7-219 - Procedure in vacation.
- 91-7-221 - Executor or administrator to make title to land.
- 91-7-223 - Executors and administrators may make deeds of conveyance.
- 91-7-225 - Lands may be leased to pay debts.
- 91-7-227 - Executors and administrators to renew obligation and encumbrances of estate.
- 91-7-229 - Claims may be sold or compromised.
- 91-7-231 - Actions which accrue in administration.
- 91-7-233 - What actions survive to executor or administrator.
- 91-7-235 - What actions survive against executor or administrator.
- 91-7-237 - Death of party not to abate suit in certain cases.
- 91-7-239 - Executor or administrator not to be sued for ninety days.
- 91-7-241 - Suit by or against administrator not to abate.
- 91-7-243 - Not bound to plead specially.
- 91-7-245 - Any one interested may defend suit.
- 91-7-247 - Actions which accrue between administrators.
- 91-7-249 - Executor in his own wrong.
- 91-7-251 - Liability of 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.
- 91-7-255 - Fiduciary not to transfer negotiable papers.
- 91-7-257 - Property not to be removed from state.
- 91-7-259 - Foreign executor or administrator may sue.
- 91-7-261 - Procedures for insolvent estates.
- 91-7-263 - Creditor may institute insolvency proceedings.
- 91-7-265 - Decree of insolvency after all property sold.
- 91-7-267 - Publication and claims presented in insolvent estate.
- 91-7-269 - Filing, examination, and adjudication of claims in insolvent estate.
- 91-7-271 - Distribution of assets in insolvent estate.
- 91-7-273 - Suits not to abate on insolvency.
- 91-7-275 - Suit not allowed after decree of insolvency.
- 91-7-277 - Annual accounts.
- 91-7-279 - Requirements of vouchers.
- 91-7-281 - Attorney's fees allowable.
- 91-7-283 - Defaulters to be listed and cited.
- 91-7-285 - Process for derelict fiduciary.
- 91-7-287 - Publication of process for defaulter.
- 91-7-289 - Hearing for derelict fiduciary.
- 91-7-291 - Final accounts.
- 91-7-293 - Names of interested parties to be stated.
- 91-7-295 - Summons or publication for final account.
- 91-7-297 - Hearing and adjudication of final account.
- 91-7-299 - Allowance to executor or administrator.
- 91-7-301 - Personal estate sold for division.
- 91-7-303 - Distribution compelled.
- 91-7-305 - Distribution of assets in kind to surviving spouse.
- 91-7-307 - Delaying settlement.
- 91-7-309 - Accounts may be opened and falsified in two years.
- 91-7-311 - Bonds to be recorded; suits thereon.
- 91-7-313 - Suit for devastavit.
- 91-7-315 - New bond of executors and administrators may be required.
- 91-7-317 - Relief of sureties and new bond.
- 91-7-319 - Executors may receive credit for costs of bond in surety company.
- 91-7-321 - Custodian appointed for distributive share.
- 91-7-322 - Payment of indebtedness or delivery of personal property of decedent to decedent's successor; affidavit of successor.
- 91-7-323 - Wages due deceased employee.
- 91-7-325 - Suit to recover wages if not paid within sixty days.
- 91-7-327 - Duty of chancery clerk when wages paid to him.
- 91-7-329 - Not to apply to estates administered upon.
- 91-7-331 - "Administrator" defined.