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 198 INSOLVENT ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS
Section 26 Unclaimed dividends; claims by executor of deceased creditor

[Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 19. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]

Section 26. If a creditor who has failed to receive his dividend as aforesaid has died, the probate court for the county where administration on his estate might have been granted shall, at any time before a decree to distribute the unclaimed dividends is passed, grant administration upon his estate, although more than twenty years may have elapsed since his death, and the administrator may receive and administer such dividend.