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 197 PAYMENT OF DEBTS, LEGACIES AND DISTRIBUTIVE SHARES
Section 3 Payment; defense against further claims

[Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 16. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]

Section 3. If an executor or administrator pays under the preceding section, before notice of the demand of any other creditor, the whole of the estate and effects of the deceased, he shall not be required in consequence of such notice to represent the estate insolvent, but in an action against him he shall be discharged upon proving such payments.