Actions Involving Executors and Administrators (Rule 87)

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1. Which action does Rule 87, Section 1 expressly permit against an executor or administrator in the representative settin…
2. Under Section 2, what actions may the executor or administrator bring or defend for the deceased's property or rights?
3. May the executor or administrator foreclose a mortgage belonging to the estate as mortgagee or assignee?
4. An executor proposes to compound a debt owed to the deceased and give the discharge contemplated by Section 4. What app…
5. A claimant seeks damages for an injury to property caused by the deceased before death. Does Rule 87, Section 1 exclude…
6. Before any letters testamentary or administration are granted, a person embezzles effects of the deceased. The later-ap…
7. An interested heir reports specific suspected concealment of the deceased's chattels to the estate court. The suspected…
8. Distinguish the claim categories in Rule 87, Section 1. Why is every demand seeking money not necessarily the same kind…
9. Explain the executor's or administrator's powers to pursue surviving causes, compound with a debtor and foreclose an es…
10. Compare Sections 6 and 7's investigative and accounting procedures with Section 8's remedy for pre-letters embezzlement…
11. Under the ordinary creditor-initiated route of Rule 87, Section 10, in whose name is the recovery action brought?
12. An estate has insufficient assets and the deceased’s fraudulent conveyance is challenged under Rule 87, Section 10. Is …