Chapter 206

Section 10. Upon the redemption of such mortgage the money paid thereon shall be received by the executor or administrator, and he shall thereupon release and discharge the mortgage; and until such redemption the executor or administrator, if possession has been taken either by h…

Section 11. If an executor or administrator recovers judgment for a debt due the deceased, and levies on real estate, he shall be seized of such real estate in trust for the persons who would have been entitled if the judgment had been satisfied in money; and the real estate so t…

Section 12. Real estate held by an executor or administrator in mortgage, or taken on execution by him, may, at any time before the right of redemption is foreclosed, be sold subject to such right, in the same manner as personal property of a person deceased; and after such right…

Section 13. If real estate so held by an executor or administrator in mortgage or on execution is not redeemed or sold as before provided, it shall be assigned and distributed to the same persons and in the same proportions as if it had been part of the personal property of the d…

Section 14. A reasonable amount expended for a burial lot and a monument, or for the repair, improvement or embellishment of a burial lot or monument, may be allowed by the court as part of the funeral expenses of a deceased person; and the court may at any time, upon petition of…

Section 15. An executor or administrator may pay to a cemetery corporation or to a town having a burial place therein a reasonable amount for the perpetual care of the lot in which the body of the deceased is buried. The probate court shall determine, after notice, to whom the sa…

Section 17. Money paid with the approval of the judge of probate to a corporation qualified to act in the commonwealth in guaranteeing the fidelity of persons and in acting as surety on bonds, or to any person for acting as surety on any official bond given to such probate court,…

Section 2. Accounts rendered to the probate court by an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian or conservator shall be for a period distinctly stated therein, and consist of three schedules, of which the first shall show the amount of personal property, and with respect to a …

Section 3. An executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, trustee or receiver may be examined on oath before the court upon any matters relative to his accounts.

Section 31. The following claims shall, in the settlement of estates by receivers, be entitled to priority in the order named: First, Debts due the United States or debts due, or taxes assessed by, the commonwealth or a county, city or town therein. Second, Wages to an amount of …

Section 4. In settling an account of any executor, administrator, trustee, guardian or other fiduciary, the probate court may require him, or any of them if there are more than one, to produce during the proceedings or afterward, as the court may direct, any securities or moneys …

Section 5. An executor or administrator with respect to personal property or a guardian, conservator or trustee with respect to real and personal property shall account for such property at its appraised value, but he shall make no profit by the increase nor sustain any loss by t…

Section 6. An executor or administrator with respect to personal property including the proceeds from any sale or mortgage of real estate, or a guardian, conservator or trustee with respect to real and personal property, shall be chargeable in his account with all such property o…

Section 7. No final account or discharge of a guardian of a person with an intellectual disability shall be allowed unless at least seven days' notice has been given to the department of developmental services in the case of a person with an intellectual disability. No account of…

Section 8. If real estate of a deceased person is used, occupied or taken charge of by an executor or administrator, he shall account for the income and management thereof in the same manner as in the case of personal property.

Section 9. If a mortgagee of real estate or an assignee of such mortgagee dies without having foreclosed the mortgage, the mortgaged property and the debt secured thereby shall be personal assets in the hands of his executor or administrator, and shall be administered and account…