§ 33-18-30 - Delivery of funds, securities, or instruments into court for which fiduciary cannot give proper discharge. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 33-18-30

   § 33-18-30  Delivery of funds, securities,or instruments into court for which fiduciary cannot give proper discharge.– If an executor, administrator, or guardian holds any money, stock certificates,bond, or other chose in action payable or deliverable to a legatee, next ofkin, ward, or other person, and the person entitled thereto cannot give aproper discharge therefor, or is out of the country, or his or her whereaboutsare unknown after proper inquiry, and the executor, administrator, or guardiandesires to free himself or herself from further liability therefor, he or shemay pay or deliver the property into the registry of the probate court whichappointed him or her, and present therewith his or her petition praying to bedischarged, and setting out under oath the title of the person and why he orshe cannot give proper discharge therefor.