ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1955 - SECT 2 Further assimilation of law respecting real and personal estates of deceased persons.

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ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1955 - SECT 2

Further assimilation of law respecting real and personal estates of deceased persons.

2.(1) All enactments (including this Act) and rules of law relating to

(a)the effect of probate or letters of administration as respects personal
estate;

(b)the dealing with personal estate before probate or letters of
administration;

(c)the powers, rights, duties, and liabilities of personal representatives in
respect of personal estate;

(d)the payment of costs of administration; and

(e)all other matters with respect to the administration of personal estate;

(2) All jurisdiction of any court with respect to the appointment of
administrators or otherwise with respect to the grant of probate or letters of
administration as respects personal estate shall extend over, and be
exercisable in relation to, real estate as if it were personal estate and the
rights, as respects citations to see proceedings, of persons interested or
claiming to be interested in the real estate of a deceased person shall be the
same as those of persons interested or claiming to be interested in the
personal estate of that deceased person.

(3) A grant of probate or letters of administration shall, unless containing
an express limitation to the contrary, have effect as well over the real as
over the personal estate and the personal representatives of a deceased person
shall hold his real estate as trustees for the persons by law entitled
thereto.

Subs.(4) rep. by 1958 c.10 (NI) s.75 sch.

(5) In the administration of the assets of a deceased person, his real estate
shall be administered, subject to and in accordance with the provisions of
Part IV, in the same manner and with the same incidents as if it were personal
estate.

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ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1955 - SECT 2