2010 Massachusetts Code
PART II REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS
TITLE II DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION, WILLS, ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS AND ABSENTEES, GUARDIANSHIP, CONSERVATORSHIP AND TRUSTS
CHAPTER 191 WILLS
Section 29 Insolvency of devisee or legatee; liability for contribution
[Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 10. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]
Section 29. If a person who is liable to contribute according to the three preceding sections is insolvent or unable to pay his just proportion of the contribution required, the other persons so liable to contribute shall be severally liable for the loss occasioned by such insolvency, each one in proportion to and not exceeding the value of the property received by him from the estate of the deceased; and if a person who is so liable dies without having paid his proportion, his executors and administrators shall be liable therefor in like manner as if it had been his own debt and to the extent to which he would have been liable if living.
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