Chapter 6:01 ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES any restriction imposed by such will or other instrument, the High Court may grant its consent on behalf of any such unborn person, whether already conceived or not, to the alienation or mortgage of such property as if such unborn person were a minor in esse. 61 Duties of surviving spouse appointed executor testamentary Every surviving spouse who has been appointed executor testamentary of his or her deceased spouse shall, so soon as the estate of the deceased has been administered and an account thereof framed according to law— (a) secure the inheritances ascertained by the said account to be due to the minor children or descendants of the deceased spouse in such manner as the deceased spouse has directed or failing such direction by deed of kinder-bewys in customary form; or (b) pay the said inheritance into the hands of the Master. 62 Revision of accounts The Master may, upon any administration and distribution account being tendered, require proof that section fifty-eight and sixty-one have been duly complied with and may refuse to accept or file such account until he is satisfied. 63 Particulars to be sent to Registrar of Deeds The Master shall from time to time furnish the Registrar of Deeds with a return giving the name of every person married in community of property with regard to whom or to whose estate an inventory has been filed, showing that such person had at the time of his or her death an interest in any immovable property registered in the name of his or her surviving spouse. Such return shall embody all material information respecting such property, and the interest therein, of the deceased which is contained in the inventory lodged with the Master and in the will, if any, of the deceased. 64 State, Master and Registrar exempt from liability in certain cases No omission to render any such return as is by section sixty-three required, no rendering of an incomplete return and no transfer of a mortgage bond bona fide passed before the Registrar of Deeds against section fifty-seven, and no error or omission in any bond accepted by the Master to secure the inheritances of minor children and no release from or cancellation of any such bond bona fide made by the Master shall subject the State, the Master or the Registrar of Deeds to any liability in respect of damage sustained by any person in consequence of such omission, return, transfer, mortgage, acceptance, release or cancellation. Estates under $4000 65 When Master may summarily appoint executor dative (1) In all cases in which it appears from the death notice or inventory filed in respect of the estate of any deceased person, and September 2000-09-27 31

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