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 27 Executor; removal for neglect to account

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 Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 19.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

Section 27. If an executor or administrator neglects to render and settle his accounts in the probate court within six months after the final determination of the claims of creditors of an insolvent estate, or within such further time as the court may allow, and thereby delays a decree of distribution, such neglect shall be unfaithful administration and he may be removed.