PROBATES.
Revocation of grant.
No. 2 of 1897.
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made under
42. When any probate or administration is revoked, all payments bonâ fide made to any executor or administrator under such probate or administration before the revocation thereof shall be a legal discharge to the person making the same, and the executor or administrator who has acted under any such revoked probate or administration may retain and reimburse himself in respect of any payments made by him which the person to whom probate or administration is afterwards granted might have lawfully made.
43. All persons making or permitting to be made any payment or transfer bonâ fide upon any probate or administration granted in respect of the estate of any deceased person shall be indemnified and protected in so doing, notwithstanding any defect or other thing whatsoever affecting the validity of such probate or administration.
tion subse-quently revoked.
20 & 21 Vict. c. 77, s. 77.
Validation of payments made under defective administration or probate.
20 & 21 Vict. c. 77, s. 78.
administra-tion revoked.
44. Where, before the revocation of any temporary administration, any proceedings have been commenced in the Supreme Court in its original jurisdiction by or against any administrator so appointed, the court in its probate jurisdiction may order that a suggestion be made upon the record of the revocation of such administration, and of the grant of probate or administration which has been made consequent thereupon, and that the proceedings shall be continued in the name of the new executor or administrator in like manner as if the proceedings had been originally commenced by or against such new executor or administrator, but subject to such conditions and variations, if any, as the court may direct.
20 & 21 Vict. c. 77, s. 76.
Practice.
45. The practice of the court shall, except where otherwise provided by this Ordinance or by the rules or orders made thereunder, be, so far as the circumstances of the case will admit, according to the practice hitherto prevailing in the same.
Practice in matters not provided for.
20 & 21 Vict. c. 77, s. 29.
Sittings in chambers.
46. It shall be lawful for the judge to sit in chambers for the despatch of such business of the court as can, in the opinion of the judge, with advantage to the suitors be heard in chambers; c. 95. s. 3.
21 & 22 Vict.