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Venue of proof of wills

By whom presented

Production of will compelled

Proof of due execution of will

Affidavit of subscribing witness receivable

Section
91-7-10

Affidavits may be used to authenticate holographic wills or codicils

Section
91-7-11

Testimony of absent witness

Section
91-7-13

Testimony on probating will reduced to writing

Section
91-7-15

Will executed by person in armed forces - additional manner of proof

Section
91-7-17

Rejection of will not binding

Section
91-7-19

All interested may be made parties

Section
91-7-21

Caveat against probate may be filed

Section
91-7-23

Validity contested within two years

Section
91-7-25

Necessary parties to contest

Section
91-7-27

Probate of will prima facie evidence

Section
91-7-29

Trial of issue devisavit vel non

Section
91-7-31

Wills recorded

Section
91-7-33

Foreign wills recorded

Section
91-7-35

Grant of letters testamentary

Section
91-7-37

Eighteen the age of majority for executors and administrators

Section
91-7-39

Administration with will annexed

Section
91-7-41

Oath and bond of executor or administrator with will annexed

Section
91-7-43

Executor as residuary legatee

Section
91-7-45

When bond not required

Section
91-7-47

Rights and duties of executor or administrator with will annexed

Section
91-7-49

Directions of will to be followed

Section
91-7-51

Effect of receipt for money by executor or trustee

Section
91-7-53

Temporary administrator

Section
91-7-55

Estate to be appraised

Section
91-7-57

Powers of temporary administrator

Section
91-7-59

Compensation of temporary administrator

Section
91-7-61

Administrator to institute suits

Section
91-7-63

Grant of administration

Section
91-7-65

Persons disqualified to administer

Section
91-7-67

Oath and bond of administrator

Section
91-7-68

Administrator of estate of intestate under legal disability

Section
91-7-69

Administration de bonis non

Section
91-7-71

Rights of administrator de bonis non

Section
91-7-73

County administrator

Section
91-7-75

Bond and oath of county administrator

Section
91-7-77

Additional bond may be required

Section
91-7-79

Letters granted to county administrator

Section
91-7-81

Accounts to be filed when office vacated

Section
91-7-83

Sheriff administrator in certain cases

Section
91-7-85

Removal and surrender of trust

Section
91-7-87

Administration revoked by proof of will and grant of letters testamentary

Section
91-7-89

Letters of certain nonresidents revoked

Section
91-7-90

Order of abatement for shares of distributees of deceased's property

Section
91-7-91

Assets defined; unsecured creditors to give notice

Section
91-7-93

Inventory of money and property owned by decedent at time of death

Section
91-7-95

Supplementary inventory or appraisement

Section
91-7-97

Adoption of collector's inventory or new inventory

Section
91-7-99

All to join in returning inventory

Section
91-7-101

Debt from executor or administrator inventoried

Section
91-7-103

Summary proceeding for discovery of assets

Section
91-7-105

Failure to return inventory

Section
91-7-107

Perfect inventory may be compelled

Section
91-7-109

Inventory and appraisement by qualified disinterested persons

Section
91-7-111

Repealed

Section
91-7-113

Repealed

Section
91-7-115

Repealed

Section
91-7-117

Executor or administrator to set apart exempt property

Sections
91-7-119 through 91-7-133

Repealed

Section
91-7-135

Court or chancellor to set apart one year's support for family

Section
91-7-137

Repealed

Section
91-7-139

Repealed

Section
91-7-141

Court or chancellor may apportion year's allowance

Section
91-7-143

Minor distributee or legatee maintained

Section
91-7-145

Notice to creditors of estate

Section
91-7-147

Newspaper notices dispensed with in small estates

Section
91-7-149

Probate of claims

Section
91-7-151

Claims to be registered in ninety days or barred; amendment of affidavits

Section
91-7-153

Registration of claim stops limitation

Section
91-7-155

Executor to pay probated, registered debts

Section
91-7-157

Executor to pay taxes

Section
91-7-159

Agreement with commissioner of internal revenue to exercise discretion in distributing assets of estate or trust

Section
91-7-161

Creditors whose claims are not due must accept payment

Section
91-7-163

Claim of executor or administrator to be treated same as other claims

Section
91-7-165

Claims may be contested

Section
91-7-167

Creditor having lien failing to present claim

Section
91-7-169

Growing crop

Section
91-7-171

Farm may be cultivated or rented

Section
91-7-173

Executor or administrator may continue business for limited time

Section
91-7-175

Sale of perishable property

Section
91-7-177

Private sale of personal property

Section
91-7-179

Sale for appraised value without order

Section
91-7-181

Certain property may be sold without being present

Section
91-7-183

Public sale of personal property

Section
91-7-185

Report of sale and proceedings

Section
91-7-187

Sale of land in preference to personalty

Section
91-7-189

Sale to pay the purchase-money of land

Section
91-7-191

Sale of land upon insufficiency of personalty

Section
91-7-193

Waste of personal estate no bar

Section
91-7-195

Creditors may apply for sale of property

Section
91-7-197

Interested parties to be cited upon petition to sell property

Section
91-7-199

Hearing and decree

Section
91-7-201

Mistake in description of land may be corrected

Section
91-7-203

Bond to pay debts may be given and decree for sale not made

Section
91-7-205

Bond required in decree for sale of lands; waiver of bond

Section
91-7-207

Failure to give bond

Section
91-7-209

Purchase-money a charge on property

Section
91-7-211

Estoppel from receipt of purchase-money

Section
91-7-213

Borrowing money to pay claims

Section
91-7-215

Procedure for borrowing

Section
91-7-217

Overplus and contribution

Section
91-7-219

Procedure in vacation

Section
91-7-221

Executor or administrator to make title to land

Section
91-7-223

Executors and administrators may make deeds of conveyance

Section
91-7-225

Lands may be leased to pay debts

Section
91-7-227

Executors and administrators to renew obligation and encumbrances of estate

Section
91-7-229

Claims may be sold or compromised

Section
91-7-231

Actions which accrue in administration

Section
91-7-233

What actions survive to executor or administrator

Section
91-7-235

What actions survive against executor or administrator

Section
91-7-237

Death of party not to abate suit in certain cases

Section
91-7-239

Executor or administrator not to be sued for ninety days

Section
91-7-241

Suit by or against administrator not to abate

Section
91-7-243

Not bound to plead specially

Section
91-7-245

Any one interested may defend suit

Section
91-7-247

Actions which accrue between administrators

Section
91-7-249

Executor in his own wrong

Section
91-7-251

Liability of executor or administrator of an executor de son tort

Section
91-7-253

Fiduciary not to use funds; investment by fiduciary bank in time certificates of deposit

Section
91-7-255

Fiduciary not to transfer negotiable papers

Section
91-7-257

Repealed

Section
91-7-259

Foreign executor or administrator may sue

Section
91-7-261

Procedures for insolvent estates

Section
91-7-263

Creditor may institute insolvency proceedings

Section
91-7-265

Decree of insolvency after all property sold

Section
91-7-267

Publication and claims presented in insolvent estate

Section
91-7-269

Filing, examination, and adjudication of claims in insolvent estate

Section
91-7-271

Distribution of assets in insolvent estate

Section
91-7-273

Suits not to abate on insolvency

Section
91-7-275

Suit not allowed after decree of insolvency

Section
91-7-277

Annual accounts

Section
91-7-279

Repealed

Section
91-7-281

Attorney's fees allowable

Section
91-7-283

Defaulters to be listed and cited

Section
91-7-285

Process for derelict fiduciary

Section
91-7-287

Publication of process for defaulter

Section
91-7-289

Hearing for derelict fiduciary

Section
91-7-291

Final accounts

Section
91-7-293

Names of interested parties to be stated

Section
91-7-295

Summons or publication for final account

Section
91-7-297

Hearing and adjudication of final account

Section
91-7-299

Allowance to executor or administrator

Section
91-7-301

Personal estate sold for division

Section
91-7-303

Distribution compelled

Section
91-7-305

Distribution of assets in kind to surviving spouse

Section
91-7-307

Delaying settlement

Section
91-7-309

Accounts may be opened and falsified in two years

Section
91-7-311

Bonds to be recorded; suits thereon

Section
91-7-313

Suit for devastavit

Section
91-7-315

New bond of executors and administrators may be required

Section
91-7-317

Relief of sureties and new bond

Section
91-7-319

Executors may receive credit for costs of bond in surety company

Section
91-7-321

Custodian appointed for distributive share

Section
91-7-322

Payment of indebtedness or delivery of personal property of decedent to decedent's successor; affidavit of successor

Section
91-7-323

Wages due deceased employee

Section
91-7-325

Suit to recover wages if not paid within sixty days

Section
91-7-327

Duty of chancery clerk when wages paid to him

Section
91-7-329

Not to apply to estates administered upon

Section
91-7-331

"Administrator" defined