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PART II. REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS

TITLE II. DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION, WILLS, ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS AND ABSENTEES, GUARDIANSHIP, CONSERVATORSHIP AND TRUSTS

CHAPTER 198. INSOLVENT ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS

PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS TO CREDITORS

Chapter 198: Section 19. Dividends; payment

Section 19. The court may before the expiration of the time allowed for claiming appeals order dividends to be paid to creditors whose claims have been allowed, if there is left an amount sufficient to pay upon claims that may probably be proved afterward a proportion equal to what is so paid to such creditors. Such amount shall remain unappropriated until the final dividend is declared, or until a distribution is ordered.