Application of payment made to fiduciaries

1. Law
2. District of Columbia Code
3. Fiduciary Relations and Persons with Mental Illness. [Enacted title]
4. General Fiduciary Relations
5. Uniform Fiduciaries Act
6. Application of payment made to fiduciaries

A person who in good faith pays or transfers to a fiduciary money or other property which the fiduciary as such is authorized to receive, is not responsible for the proper application thereof by the fiduciary; and any right or title acquired from the fiduciary in consideration of the payment or transfer is not invalid in consequence of a misapplication by the fiduciary.

(Sept. 14, 1965, 79 Stat. 776, Pub. L. 89-183, § 1.)

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 21-1702.

1973 Ed., § 21-1702.

Cross References

Joint or trust accounts, safe deposit boxes, etc., see § 26-801 et seq.

Editor's Notes

Uniform Law: This section is based upon § 2 of the Uniform Fiduciaries Act.

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