Chap. 57.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5248 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to curators of estates. | [H B 58]

Approved February 27, 1932

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion fifty-two hundred and forty-eight of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 5248. Such court, or clerk, or any duly qualified deputy
of such clerk, may appoint a curator of the estate of a decedent during
a contest about his will, or during the infancy, or in the absence of
an executor, or until administration of the estate be granted, taking
from him bond in a reasonable penalty. The curator shall take care
that the estate is not wasted before the qualification of an executor or
administrator, or before such estate shall lawfully come into pos-
session of such executor or administrator. He may demand, sue for,
recover, and receive all debts due to the decedent, and all his other
personal estate, and likewise may lease or receive the rents and profits
of any real estate whereof the decedent or testator may have died
seized or possessed. He shall pay debts, so far as such payment may
not affect the priority in the order of payment prescribed by law, and
may be sued in like manner as an executor or administrator ; and upon
the qualification of an executor or administrator shall account with
him for and pay and deliver to him such estate as he has in his hands
or may be lable for.