The public statutes of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations; to which are prefixed the constitutions of the United States and of the State

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 ...within one year after the will shall be proved or administration granted, nor after three years from the time of such proof or grant, except for the causes mentioned in section seventeen of chapter one hundred eightysix, jn'ovided notice of his appointment be given according to law, said periods to be reckoned from the time of giving such notice. Sec. 9. No executor or administrator, except an executor in his own wrong, shall be holden to bail upon mesne process, nor shall his own proper goods or estate be attached, nor his person arrested, nor his person or estate, real or personal, taken in execution for the debts or legacies of the testator or intestate but upon suggestion of waste, as hereinafter provided, but in such suits, writs of attachment and executions shall run against the goods, chattels, rights and credits of the deceased only, in the hands of the executor or administrator. Sec. 10. If the execution shall issue as aforesaid against the estate of the testator or intestate in the hands of the executor or administrator, and the officer charged with the service thereof shall return thereon that he cannot find any such estate whereon to levy such execution and that the same has not been satisfied by such executor or administrator, a writ of scire facias may be sued out of the office of the clerk of the same court against such executor or administrator, containing a suggestion of waste, which writ, being duly served by the officer to whom it shall be directed, and by him returned, if the executor or administrator make default of appearance, or, coming in, shall not show sufficient cause to the contrary, execution shall be awarded against him and his own proper estate for the sum recovered, with interest due thereon, with costs, and, for want of esta...

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Published January 1, 2012