Chap. 279.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section 82 of Chapter 182 of
the Code of 1860, in Relation to the Payment of Money and Delivery of
Property in the Hands of Fiduciaries.

Approved July 11, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section thirty-
two, of chapter one hundred and thirty-two of the Code of
eighteen hundred and sixty, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

Ҥ 82. When a report of the accounts of any personal rep-
resentative, and of the debts and demands against his dece-
dent’s estate, shall have been filed in the office of a court, whe-
ther under this chapter or in a suit in chancery, the said court,
after two years from the qualification of such personal repre-
sentative, may, on the motion of a legatee or distributee of
his decedent, make an order for the creditors of such decedent
to show cause, on some day to be named in the order, against
the payment and delivery of the estate of the decedent to his
legatees or distributees; a copy of which order shall be pub-
lished once a week for four weeks in one or more news-
papers, as the court may direct, and posted at the door of
the court-house of the county or corporation for or in which
the court is held, on the first day of two successive terms of
such county or corporation court, or in the city of Richmond,
on the first Monday in two successive months. On or after
the day named in the order, the court in term, or the judge in
vacation, may order the payment and delivery to the legatees
or distributees of the whole or a part of the money and other
estate, not before distributed, with or without a retunding
bond, as it may prescribe. But every legatee or distributee to
whom any such payment or delivery is made, and his repre-
sentative may, in a suit brought against him, within five years
afterwards, be adjudged to refund 9 due proportion of any
debts or demands appearing against the decedent, and of the
costs attending their recovery.”

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.