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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 23. Allowed claims; sufficiency of assets; payment of other claims

Section 23. If, after the completion of the list of allowed claims, the assets prove sufficient to pay all such claims, the executor or administrator shall pay them in full; and if any other debt is afterward recovered against him, he shall be liable therefor only to the extent of the assets then remaining. If there are two or more such creditors, the assets, if insufficient to pay their demands in full, shall be divided among them pro rata.