Relief to Surety on Fiduciary Bond

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Upon such petition and notice, the court may compel the principal to give other sufficient security, or counter security, to be approved by the court, or to deliver up the estate to the petitioner, or such other person as may be directed, and may make such other orders and decrees for the relief of the petitioner and better security of the estate as may be just and equitable.

Code 1858, § 3673 (deriv. Acts 1813, ch. 119, § 5; 1829, ch. 15, § 2); Shan., § 5443; Code 1932, § 9605; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 23-2708.

Textbooks. Pritchard on Wills and Administration of Estates (4th ed., Phillips and Robinson), § 597.

Tennessee Jurisprudence, 7 Tenn. Juris., Contribution and Exoneration, § 9; 12 Tenn. Juris., Executors and Administrators, § 81.


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