91-7-155 - Executor to pay probated, registered debts. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 91-7-155. Executor to pay probated, registered debts.
 

It shall be the duty of an executor or administrator to speedily pay the debts due by the estate out of the assets, if the estate be solvent; but he shall not pay any claim against the deceased unless the same has been probated, allowed, and registered. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 49, art. 1 (90); 1857, ch. 60, art. 81; 1871, §§ 1135, 1137; 1880, §§ 2026, 2027; 1892, § 1931; 1906, § 2105; Hemingway's 1917, § 1773; 1930, § 1674; 1942, § 571.