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RULES OF SUPREME COURT IN CHINA

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277. Letters of administration with will annexed may be granted Administra in the case of persons who shall die leaving a will in which no executor is tion with will named resident within the jurisdiction of the Court, or where the executors Form 106. shall not appear on citation, or shall renounce or from any legal disability are not competent to take out probate.

revocation to

278. When administration with will annexed is granted, full power is Power of to be reserved to revoke the administration and grant probate to any be reserved. executor who shall appear and demand it.

279. All probates and administrations must be limited to property of Limitations. the deceased existing within the limits of the Principal Order.

administration,

280. As soon as convenient after the death the executor or executors Petition for named in the will or the next-of-kin or other person desiring administration Probate or may file a petition in the Court, and thereupon the Court shall issue a Forms 95, 96, citation, which may either be posted up in some public place, or advertised 102, and 1093. in such newspapers in China or Corea or elsewhere as the Court shall think necessary to insure due publicity.

ance to citation

281. If no person appears to the citation, the Court may, after the If no appear- expiration of ten days from the date of publication of the citation if in China grant may or Corea, or if elsewhere then within such reasonable time as the Court shall issue. appoint, proceed to grant probate or administration, as the case may be.

232. If any person appears to the citation, the Court shall fix a day Forms 104 for the consideration of the claims of the several applicants.

and 105.

283. The Court may, of its own motion or on the application of any Appearance to person claiming an interest under a will, give notice to the executors citation. (if any) therein name 1 to come in and prove the will or to renounce probate, and they, or some or one of them, shall within fourteen days' notice come in and prove or renounce accordingly

come in aud

284. Where in a Provincial Court a dispute or question arises in Notice to relation to the grant or the application for it, or it appears to the Court executors to doubtful whether or not the grant should be made, the Court shall prove. communicate with the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court shall either direct the proceedings of the Reference to Provincial Court in the matter, or shall by order remove the matter Supreme to the Supreme Court.

Court.

Administra-

Form 109.

285. Before any administration is granted the person to whom it is to be committed shall enter into a bond, with or without sureties, in double tion bond. the amount of the sworn gross value of the estate, unless the Court shall think fit for any reason to diminish the amount. The bond shall be conditioned to make an inventory of the property of the deceased, to exhibit such inventory in the Court, to well and truly administer the estate, and to make an account of the administration when required to do so; such bond is to be deposited with the Court.

286. The Court, on granting letters of administration, may fix a Time for certain time for the administrator to pass his accounts.

passing

accounts.

administrators.

287. The Court may, in its discretion, allow to any executor or commission to administrator such a commission, not exceeding in the whole 5 per cent. executors and calculated on the assets, as may be a reasonable compensation for his loss of time and trouble, but no allowance shall, under any circumstances, be made to any executor or administrator who shall neglect to file his accounts or to perform any other duty attaching to his office as such executor or administrator within the time fixed by the Court.

288. In the event of any executor or administrator neglecting to file Interest to be his accounts or to perform any duty within the time fixed by the Court, charged to the Court may charge him or them with interest at the current rate on executors and all

moneys belonging to the estate then in his or their hands.

administrators,

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