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Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations
Chapter 35. TRUSTS
Subchapter III. General Provisions
§ 3531. Renunciation by trustee named in trust instrument; filing and recording.
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§ 3531. Renunciation by trustee named in trust instrument; filing and recording.
Whenever, by any will, deed or other instrument, a trustee is named and before the acceptance of the trust the person named as such trustee renounces and declines to perform the duties imposed thereby, the trustee may make and file in the office of the Register in Chancery of the county where such will, deed or instrument may be probated or recorded a written renunciation setting forth in general terms the instrument of appointment and that trustee has not accepted the trust or exercised any powers or performed any duties thereunder and trustee declines to act under such appointment. The Register in Chancery shall record and index such renunciation in the Chancery docket.
Code 1915, § 3871; 33 Del. Laws, c. 230, § 1; Code 1935, § 4397; 12 Del. C. 1953, § 3531; 70 Del Laws, c. 186,, § 1; 77 Del. Laws, c. 98, § 14;
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