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INTESTATES ESTATES ACT 1884

INTESTATES ESTATES ACT 1884 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Law respecting the administration of the
Personal Estate and the Escheat of the Real Estate of Deceased
Persons; and for other purposes.
[14th August 1884]
Short title.

INTESTATES ESTATES ACT 1884 - SECT 1

1. This Act may be cited as the Intestates Estates Act, 1884.

INTESTATES ESTATES ACT 1884 - SECT 2
Recovery of personal estate of deceased person where administration
granted to nominee of the Crown.

2. Where the administration of the personal estate of any deceased
person is granted to a nominee of Her Majesty (whether the Treasury
Solicitor, or a person nominated by the Treasury Solicitor, or any
other person), any action or other proceeding by or against such
nominee for the recovery of the personal estate of such deceased
person, or any share thereof, shall be of the same character, and
be brought, instituted, and carried on in the same manner, and be
subject to the same rules of law and equity (including the rules
of limitation under the statutes of limitation or otherwise), in all
respects as if the administration had been granted to such nominee
as one of the next of kin of such deceased person.

INTESTATES ESTATES ACT 1884 - SECT 3
Limitation on proceedings to recover personal estate by or from
Crown.

3. An information or other proceeding on the part of Her Majesty
shall not be filed or instituted, and a petition of right shall
not be presented, in respect of the personal estate of any deceased
person or any part or share thereof, or any claim thereon,
except... subject to the same rules of law and equity in and
subject to which an action for the like purpose might be brought
by or against a subject.

S.4 rep. (deaths after 31.12.1955) by 1961 c.55 s.9(4) sch.3 Pt.I.
S.5 rep. by 1979 NI14 art.43(3) sch.3. Ss.6, 7 rep. (deaths after
31.12.1955) by 1961 c.55 s.9(4) sch.3 Pt.I. S.9(a) rep. by 1979
NI14 art.43(3) sch.3; para.(b) rep. (deaths after 31.12.1955) by 1979
NI14 art.43(3) sch.3