Chapter 6:01
ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES
Estate Administrators Act [Chapter 27:20] to be curator dative as
aforesaid.
[Subsection amended by section 68 of Act 16/1998.]
(3) When the only property known by the Master to belong to any
such absent person consists of a sum or sums of money due and
payable to him by the executor of any deceased person or by the
trustee of any insolvent estate, it shall not be necessary for the
Master to take any such proceedings as aforesaid; but the Master
may, pursuant to section fifty-one demand, recover and receive
payment of all such sums of money which shall be, after the same
are so received by him, disposed of in manner hereinafter in this Act
provided.
81 Appointment of curator ad litem and curator bonis
(1) Nothing in this Act contained shall prevent the High Court or
any judge thereof from appointing a curator ad litem to any person in
every case and in such manner in all respects in which such
appointment might by law have been made by the High Court if this
Act had not been passed.
(2) In all cases where the same may be necessary or expedient,
the Master may appoint a curator bonis to take the custody and
charge of any estate or property until, for the purpose of the due
administration and management of the same, letters of confirmation
are granted to some person as tutor testamentary or dative or as
curator nominate or dative in manner hereinbefore in this Act
provided.
(3) Every such appointment as curator bonis so made by the
Master shall, on the application of any person having an interest in
such estate, be subject to be reviewed and confirmed or set aside by
the High Court or any judge thereof.
(4) The High Court or judge by whom any such appointment is set
aside shall appoint some other fit and proper person to be curator
bonis.
82 Security for due administration by tutors and curators
Every tutor, either dative or assumed, and every curator dative and
curator bonis, who is appointed by the Master or the High Court or
judge to administer the estate or property of any minor or absent
person shall, before he is permitted to enter on the administration of
such estate or property, find security to the satisfaction of the Master
to such amount as in the circumstances of each particular case is
reasonable for the due and faithful administration and management
of such estate and property.
*83 Disqualifications of persons as tutors or curators
Every person shall be deemed incapacitated and disqualified to
hold, and shall be incapable of holding, the office of tutor, either
testamentary or dative, or of curator, either nominate or dative, in
every case and for every cause in and for which any person
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