Time, how reckoned upon successive letters Where it is prescribed by law that an act must or may be done within a specified time after le... · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 705. Time, how reckoned upon successive letters
Where it is prescribed by law that an act must or may be done within a specified time after letters are issued and successive or supplementary letters are issued upon the same estate, the time so specified must be reckoned from the issuing of the first letters, except where it is otherwise specially prescribed by law or where the first or any subsequent letters are revoked as provided in 1413.
When the same estate receives successive or supplemental letters, a statutory time period running from issuance of letters is generally measured from the first letters. ★ A different starting point applies only when another law specifically provides one or letters are revoked under § 1413.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 1 — The Surrogate's Court in Plain English; Volume 2 — The Surrogate's Court Procedure Act; Volume 5 — Your Career: Surrogate's Court in Plain English.