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Library Administration of Estates Act 1959.

Administration of Estates Act 1959.

Administration of Estates Act 1959.

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This Act makes provision for the devolution of estates of diseases persons and for the administration of such estates.Its 26 sections are divided into 4 Chapters: preliminary and general (I); Devolution of real estate on death (II); executors and administrators (III); Miscellaneous provisions (IV).Subject to the provisions of this Part of this Act, real estate to which a deceased person was entitled for an estate or interest not ceasing on his death shall on his death, notwithstanding any testamentary disposition, devolve on and become vested in his personal representatives from time to time as if it were a chattel real vesting in them (sect. 6). Subject to the powers, rights, duties and liabilities hereinafter mentioned in this Act, the personal representatives of a deceased person shall hold his real estate as trustees for the persons by law entitled thereto, and those persons shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, have the same power of requiring a transfer of real estate as persons entitled to personal estate have of requiring a transfer of such personal estate (sect. 7).

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