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Executor's representative liability

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Definitions from Case Law

From 39 U.S. 282 - De Valengin's Administrators v. Duffy · 1840Most cited · 38 citing opinions

assets received post-death

whatever property or money is recovered or received by the executor or administrator, after the death of his testator or intestate in virtue of his representative character, he holds as assets of the estate; and he is liable therefor, in such representative character to the party who has a good title thereto.

How often courts cite the case defining “Executor's representative liability”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Executor's representative liability” — 38 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.