Chap. 278.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 5410 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to fiduciaries exhibiting their accounts for settlement. [S 44]

Approved March 17, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section fifty-four hundred ten of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 5410. How compelled to exhibit their accounts for settle-
ment.—When any fiduciary mentioned in sections fifty-four hundred
eight and fifty-four hundred nine shall have so failed to lay before such
commissioner a statement of his receipts for any year, a commissioner be-
fore whom the statement might have been laid may, of his own accord,
at any time after the expiration of eighteen months provided for in sec-
tions fifty-four hundred eight and fifty-four hundred nine, and shall,
upon request made to him at any time within ten years from the com-
mencement of such year, by any person who is interested as creditor,
legatee, distributee, surety of the fiduciary, or otherwise, or who ap-
pears as next friend of an infant so interested, issue a summons, directed
to the sheriff or other officer of any county or corporation, requiring him
to summon the fiduciary to lay before the commissioner a statement of
his receipts and disbursements, accompanied by his vouchers, for such
year, and for the time which may have elapsed. If the same be not,
within one month after the service of the summons, laid before the com-
missioner who issued it, he shall report the fact to the court which, or
the clerk of which, appointed him; and the court shall take such measures
to compel the performance by the fiduciary of his duty as could be taken
if an express order of the court had been disobeyed.