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PART II
TITLE II
CHAPTER 205
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PART II
REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS
(Chapters 183 through 210)
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TITLE II
DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION, WILLS, ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS AND ABSENTEES, GUARDIANSHIP, CONSERVATORSHIP AND TRUSTS
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CHAPTER 205
BONDS OF EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, GUARDIANS, CONSERVATORS, TRUSTEES AND RECEIVERS
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Section 1
Bonds; form; necessity
Section 2
French spoliation cases; form of bonds
Section 3
Executor or administrator as residuary legatee; bond
Section 4
Executor or administrator
Section 4A
Temporary executor or administrator
Section 5
Trustee under a will exempt from giving sureties on bond upon request
Section 6
Repealed, 2008, 521, Sec. 35
Section 6A
Surety not required on bonds filed by national banks
Section 7
Bonds in certain cases; necessity
Section 7A
Statutory forms; substitution; enforcement of conditions
Section 8
Neglect to give bond; resignation
Section 9
Sureties on bonds; requirements
Section 10
Approval by judge or register
Section 11
Joint fiduciaries; joint or separate bonds
Section 12
Joint executors; failure to give bond; effect
Section 13
Fiduciary; license to sell or mortgage realty; additional bond
Section 14
Insufficiency of sureties; new bond
Section 15
Discharge of sureties; new bond
Section 16
Failure to give new bond; effect
Section 17
Sureties on prior bond; liability
Section 18
Penal sum of bond; reduction
Section 19
Woman fiduciary; effect of marriage
Section 19A
Joint control of trust estates; agreements between fiduciaries and sureties; authorization
Section 20
Creditors
Section 21
Creditors; amount due ascertained by decree of distribution
Section 22
Next of kin
Section 23
Person aggrieved by maladministration of fiduciary
Section 24
Judge as obligor
Section 25
Wife of probate judge
Section 26
Endorsement of writ
Section 27
Obligor; summoning
Section 28
Obligor; failure to appear; effect
Section 29
Guardians; conservators; trustees or other fiduciary
Section 30
Venue
Section 31
Form of execution
Section 32
Execution for use of particular person; procedure
Section 33
Execution for undesignated persons; procedure
Section 34
New breach; effect
Section 35
Bond of guardian or conservator; limitation of action against sureties
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