Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 76A.djvu/672

–576– -576§ 659. Short title This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Simultaneous Death Act.

PART 3—ADMINISTRATION OF DECEDENTS' ESTATES CBAPTIR 51. GENERAL PUOVISIONS 53. PROBATE OF WILI.B 55. CONTESTS OF W I L L S 57. EXECUTORS AND ADMINISTBATURS; APPOINTMENT; REMOVAL; SIONS 50. O A T H S AND BONUS 61. I'owEKs AND D U T I E S OF EXECUTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS 63. INVENTORY, APPRAISEMENT, AND COLLECTION OF PROPERTY 65. DISPOSITION OF ESTATES WITHOUT ADMINISTRATION 07. SUPPORT OF THE FAMILY 69. CLAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE 71. UESORT TO A S S E T S; SALES 73. NOTES, AIORTGAQES, CONVEYANCES AND TRANSFERS 75. COMPENSATION AND ACCOUNTING 77. DISTBIDUTION AND DISCHARGE TO. DETERMINATION OF H E I R S H I P 81. PARTITION BEFORE DISTRIBUTION

Sec. 901 931 1011 SUSPEN-

as. I*UBLic ADMINISTRATOR 85.

NOTICES. ORDERS, AND PROCEDURE

1101 1351 1411 1461 1521 1581 1621 1701 1741 1811 1921 2041 2101

2141 2181

CHAPTER 51—GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec. 901, 902. 003. 5)04.

Passage of title to decedent's property; possession; charges. Jurisdiction and venue. CondusiTeness of order granting letters. Dlsqualiflcation of judge for interest, etc.

§ 901. Passage of title to decedent's property; possession; charges When a person dies, the title to his property passes to the person to whom it IS devised or bequeathed by his last will, or, in the aosence of disposition by will, to the persons who succeed to his estate as provided by Part 2 of this title; but all his property is subject to the possession of the executor or administrator and to the control of the district court for the purposes of administration, sale or other disposition under the provisions of this Part, and, except as otherwise provided by this title, is chargeable with the expenses oi administering his estate, the payment of his debts, and the allowance to the family. § 902. Jurisdiction and venue (a) Except as otherwise provided by this section, wills shall be proved and letters testamentary or of administration granted and administration of decedents' estates had, in: (1) the division of the district court in which the decedent was a resident at the time of his death, wherever he may have died; (2) the division of the district court in which the decedent died, leaving estate therein, he not being a resident of the Canal Zone; (3) any division of the district court in which the decedent leaves estate, he not being a resident of the Canal Zone at the time of his death, and having died out of the Canal Zone or without leaving estate in the division in which he died. (b) In either of the cases specified by subsection (a)(3) of this section, when the estate is in more than one division, the division of the district court in which application for letters testamentary or of administration is first made has exclusive jurisdiction of the administration and settlement of the estate.

�