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§§ 7938-7942. ACCOUNTING OF EXECUTORS. Tit. XXX, Ch. 6.
CHAPTER 6.
ACCOUNTING OP EXECUTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS.
SECTION 7938. Executors in their own wrong.
1 Any person who, without being regularly appointed as executor
2 or administrator, intermeddles with the property of a deceased per- |
3 son, is responsible only to the regular executor or administrator, when
4 appointed, for the value of all property taken or received by him, and '
5 for all damage caused by his acts to the estate of the deceased.
[C, '51, § 1439; R., '60, § 2464; C, 73, § 2484; C, '97,
§ 3407; 39 G. A., ch. 117, § 1.]
SEC. 7942. Compensation.
1 Executors and administrators shall be allowed such reasonable
2 fee as may be determined by the court, for services rendered, but not
3 in excess of the following commissions upon the personal estate sold |
4 or distributed by them and for the proceeds of real estate sold for the i
5 payment of debts by them which shall be received as full compensa-
6 tion for all ordinary services :
7 For the first one thousand dollars, six per cent.
8 For the overplus between one and five thousand dollars, four
9 per cent.
10 For all sums over five thousand dollars, two per cent.
11 There shall also be allowed and taxed as part of the costs of ad-
12 ministration of estates an attorney's fee for the administrator's or
13 executor's attorney such reasonable fee as may be determined by the
14 court, for services rendered, but not in excess of the schedule of fees
15 herein provided for administrators and executors. Such further al-
16 lowances as are just and reasonable may be made by the court to ad-
17 ministrators, executors and their attorneys for actual necessary and
18 extraordinary expenses or services.
[C, '51, §§ 1429, 1430; R., '60, §§ 2454, 2455; C, '73,
1 §§ 2494, 2495: C. '97, § 3415; 38 G. A., ch. 391, § 1;
39 G. A., ch. 22, § 1.]
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